
We Built an Agentic System Before We Knew That's What We Were Building
What the architecture actually looks like in production — and what the diagrams don't tell you. A lot of the writing about agentic AI right now describes architectures that haven't shipped. Frameworks, papers, diagrams — the pattern of separating an LLM planner from a deterministic execution layer is well-described in academic work and a handful of open-source toolkits. The shape is well-known on paper. What I haven't seen as much of is a plain, honest account of what that architecture actuall