At every company we worked at, the same infrastructure appeared: a queue, a retry table, a cron box, and a wiki page explaining how they fit together.
The pattern
The business logic was a few hundred lines. The machinery to keep it running was thousands.
The bet
If durability lived in the code, as a function call, most of that machinery could disappear. Agents made the need urgent: they run longer, call more tools and fail in more interesting ways.
