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For Agents, Waiting is the Hardest Part
Community description: Many engineers rightfully view every step in a financial workflow as a potential point of failure,...
Dev.to | Oct 14, 2026 | dev.to staff
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A Durable Execution platform, such as Temporal (MIT-licensed open source), records an application's progress and detailed results of every important step. Model and tool results become part of that recorded progress, allowing the agent to resume without repeating completed work or wasting tokens unnecessarily. Durable timers allow the agent to wait reliably for any duration, whether seconds or months.
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