AI Agents
Why Backend Engineers Who Treat AI Agent Workflow Checkpointing as a Nice-to-Have Are Sleepwalking Into an Unrecoverable Long-Running Task Crisis , And What a Durable Execution, Mid-Flight Resumption Architecture Actually Looks Like in 2026
There is a quiet catastrophe forming inside the backend infrastructure of thousands of AI-powered products right now. It does not announce itself with a loud crash. It creeps in slowly, disguised as a flaky integration test, a mysteriously silent task queue, or a user complaint that their "AI research