Background Agents: Durable Execution for Agent Jobs That Run for Hours

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• Originally published on AI Tech Connect .
• When the request-response loop stops working Most agent tutorials are written against a mental model borrowed from web handlers.
• A request arrives, the model thinks, a tool or two fires, a response goes out, and the whole thing is finished in four seconds.
• It falls apart the moment the work is genuinely long: a research sweep across two hundred sources, a codebase migration touching nine hundred files, a….