Throughput Scaling for High-Volume AI Agent Deployments
Most AI agent pilots fail at scale due to infrastructure, not model capability.
Mirela Ostrowski
Senior Editor, Infrastructure & Search
Mirela Ostrowski spent a decade as a distributed systems engineer at mid-size cloud infrastructure firms before pivoting to technical journalism in 2014. She focuses on search architecture, indexing pipelines, and the infrastructure stacks that underpin production AI deployments.
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Most AI agent pilots fail at scale due to infrastructure, not model capability.
Break retrieval into stages to find where multi-hop agents actually lose time.
Retrieval, not the model, is where most AI agents fail in production.
Models trained on static data drift away from current facts without live data connections.