http://programmer.ie/tags/idempotency/ Recent content in Idempotency on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:13:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/advanced-agents-from-first-principles-20/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:13:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/advanced-agents-from-first-principles-20/ <h1 id="can-your-agent-coordinate-across-machines-without-duplicating-work">Can Your Agent Coordinate Across Machines Without Duplicating Work?</h1> <p>A single-process agent can already be complicated.</p> <p>It can plan.</p> <p>It can search.</p> <p>It can launch speculative branches.</p> <p>It can cancel losing work.</p> <p>It can verify outcomes.</p> <p>Then you move that work onto multiple workers.</p> <p>Now a new class of failure appears.</p> <p>Two workers both believe they own the same task.</p> <p>One worker pauses for thirty seconds.</p> <p>Another worker assumes it died and takes over.</p>