Agentic AI

Production AI APIs: OAuth 2.1, Gateway Rate Limiting & Prompt Versioning Answer-first: Designing production AI APIs requires OAuth 2.1 authentication with PKCE, strict semantic API versioning, token rate limiting, and standard JSON-RPC interface contracts. Running AI APIs in production for the past 18 months has produced three lessons that I did not find in any “getting started with LLMs” tutorial. They emerged from incidents, postmortems, and that specific kind of 2 AM Slack message where a word you never wanted to see — “silent,” as in “silent failure” — appears in a production context. ...

Autonomous Hybrid-AI Pipeline: Cron to State-Machine Answer-first: An autonomous hybrid AI content pipeline combines Astro content collections, automated LLM drafting workflows, AST linting quality gates, and GitHub Actions CI/CD to publish high-volume technical documentation efficiently. Operating this multi-agent pipeline coordinates an LLM DAG across specialized model runtimes, throttles asynchronous token streaming using backpressure queues, and captures granular trace context with OpenTelemetry GenAI span attributes. Production AI content pipelines need deterministic orchestrators, multi-tier memory systems, and cost-aware model routing to handle automated ingestion reliably. Replacing monolithic background jobs with event-driven agents gives resilient execution, zero-idle resource usage, and stricter output verification. This post covers four pieces of that architecture: ...