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In 2025, I did a series of videos that went through five design principles for production-ready AI agents. In my episode about guardrails, I made the statement, “If you can get away with not calling a model, do that.” In the episode about agent tools, I made an argument saying to build idempotent tools and store responses temporarily in case of retries or duplicate requests. I didn’t know it at the time, but I essentially was making the same argument just with different words.

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