Salman Munaf Says AI Agents Are Just Distributed Systems: Treat Them That Way or They'll Break

Salman Munaf argues that AI agents should be treated as distributed systems requiring robust engineering controls such as idempotency, scoped credentials, circuit breakers, and traceability, rather than merely applying model-centric thinking. Failures like unauthorized refunds or database deletions are system engineering failures, not model faults, highlighting the need for explicit compensating actions and careful state management to prevent cascading errors.

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