https://notes.muthu.co/tags/agent-infrastructure/Recent content in Agent-Infrastructure on Engineering NotesHugoen-usMon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.muthu.co/2026/05/the-unsolved-engineering-problems-of-ai-agents/Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://notes.muthu.co/2026/05/the-unsolved-engineering-problems-of-ai-agents/<p> <img src="https://notes.muthu.co/agents.png" alt=""> </p> <p>AI agents engineering is still in its &ldquo;distributed systems in the 1990s&rdquo; phase.</p> <p>Most demos work. Very few systems are reliable, scalable, explainable, secure, cheap, and autonomous at the same time.</p> <p>That gap matters. A demo can succeed once under ideal conditions. A production agent has to survive ambiguous inputs, partial failures, bad data, tool errors, cost constraints, security attacks, long-running state, and human accountability. It has to act like software while being powered by probabilistic reasoning.</p>