https://www.readysetcloud.io/tags/caching/Recent content in Caching on Ready, Set, Cloud!Hugoen-usWed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.helton/your-agent-is-repeating-itself/Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.helton/your-agent-is-repeating-itself/<p>In 2025, I did a series of videos that went through <a href="https://rdyset.click/c/ddv5bp">five design principles for production-ready AI agents</a>. In my episode about <a href="https://rdyset.click/c/2i4wS9">guardrails</a>, I made the statement, &ldquo;<em>If you can get away with not calling a model, do that</em>.&rdquo; In the episode about <a href="https://rdyset.click/c/K0EpYb">agent tools</a>, I made an argument saying to build idempotent tools and store responses temporarily in case of retries or duplicate requests. I didn&rsquo;t know it at the time, but I essentially was making the same argument just with different words.</p>