AI Engineer YouTube · May 10, 2026

Two Roads to Durable Agents: Replay vs. Snapshot — Eric Allam, CEO, Trigger.dev

Two Roads to Durable Agents: Replay vs. Snapshot — Eric Allam, CEO, Trigger.dev video thumbnail
Why it matters

Replay-based durability — wrapping every step in a journal, replaying on recovery, requiring deterministic code — is how everyone makes agents durable today. It works until it doesn't: the journal grows with every turn, the structure starts constraining how you write code, and an agent that needs to run for hours start

My takeaway: Replay-based durability — wrapping every step in a journal, replaying on recovery, requiring deterministic code — is how everyone makes agents durable today. It works until it doesn't: the journal grows with every turn, the structure starts constraining how you write code, and an agent that needs to run for hours start