AI agents are entering their rebuild era as enterprises confront the reliability problem

As enterprise AI agents move into production, organizations are confronting a growing reliability problem. Many teams are discovering that LLM performance alone does not determine whether agents succeed in production. Long-running AI workflows must survive crashes, preserve state, recover from failures, manage inference costs, and coordinate across APIs, tools, and enterprise systems.After a first wave focused on rapid deployment, organizations now need to revisit those first-generation implemen