Software Engineers Are Building Agents Wrong: Treat Agentic AI Like Distributed Systems, Not Prompt Chains

Anthropic just shipped Managed Agents. Claude Cowork is GA. OpenAI is pushing deeper into agentic workflows. Every major lab is converging on the same thesis: the future isn't chat — it's agents that do things. And most engineering teams are going to botch the implementation. The Problem: Bolting Agents Onto Codebases That Were Never Designed for Them Here's what I keep seeing. A team gets excited about agentic AI. They wire up a few LLM calls with some glue code. Maybe they use Lan...