Applied AI: Long-Running and Background Agents

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of November 1, 2026. A procurement team gives an agent a job: review 40 vendor contracts, email each vendor to confirm renewal terms, and produce a comparison by morning. Two hours in, at contract 31, the server running the agent restarts for a routine deploy. The run is gone. Someone starts it again, the bill doubles, and 30 vendors receive the same email twice. Nothing about the mod… Read More