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The 'Agentic' Trend is Masking a Deep Infrastructure Problem

A developer argues that the 'agentic' trend in AI is masking a deep infrastructure problem, noting that most frameworks treat agents as black boxes and rely on flat RAG implementations for state management, leading to catastrophic context drift in long-term tasks. The developer calls for bi-temporal architectures at the storage layer.

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The 'Agentic' Trend is Masking a Deep Infrastructure Problem
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Most frameworks treat agents as black boxes. But if you look closely, the state management layer is usually just a flat RAG implementation. This causes catastrophic context drift in long-term tasks. We need bi-temporal architectures at the storage layer.

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