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Applied AI·October 14, 2026·1 min read

AI trading agents face a reliability bar human apps never did

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AI trading agents running the same model but getting different outcomes because one platform times out is a reminder that infra SLOs become part of the strategy itself. If you’re deploying agents in any latency-sensitive domain, treat network, queuing, and failover design as core product work — not just DevOps plumbing.

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