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Building Durable Long-Running Tasks Requires Manual Infrastructure

Developers building agent loops, ETL pipelines, and billing workflows must wire together queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management themselves — infrastructure that doesn't differentiate their product. The operational overhead scales with reliability requirements, making correctness expensive.

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