# The 'Agentic' Trend is Masking a Deep Infrastructure Problem

> Source: <https://dev.to/shiv_s_hankar/the-agentic-trend-is-masking-a-deep-infrastructure-problem-57no>
> Published: 2026-08-02 12:05:36+00:00

# The 'Agentic' Trend is Masking a Deep Infrastructure Problem

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.