Deputy CEO to Solo AI Dev: What Executive Skills Actually Shipped Code

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• Originally published on AIdeazz — cross-posted here with canonical link.
• My first production AI agent, a Telegram bot for a Panamanian real estate client, failed to route a simple query to Claude 3 Haiku 18% of the time.
• The error logs showed a 429 Too Many Requests from the LLM provider, even though my rate limits were nowhere near breached.
• I spent three days debugging a custom retry logic, only to discover the issue was a misconfigured max_concurrent_requests parameter in my agent….