Designing Agentic Systems Like Distributed Systems

Agentic development is rapidly becoming one of the most talked-about paradigms in software development. The talk is not just of using AI to assist in coding but of using systems where an AI agent is capable of planning, executing tasks, and even deciding. From a surface-level perspective, agentic systems are a new abstraction. But if we look under the hood, we find something that looks rather familiar: distributed systems.