Agents Need a Runtime

This is where your argument moves from: "Agents are interesting" to: "Agents are a distributed systems problem."

Discuss:

• long-running execution
• state
• retries
• scheduling
• cancellation
• isolation
• resource management
• credentials
• networking
• failure recovery
• durable execution

A normal request is: Request → Compute → Response

An agent might be: Start ↓ Reason ↓ Tool call ↓ Wait ↓ Resume ↓ Reason ↓ Action ↓ Failure ↓ Retry ↓ Continue ↓ Complete

That needs infrastructure.