Post argues orchestration control plane should handle agentic technical debt

The author argues that agentic technical debt accumulates when cross-cutting concerns like retries, approvals, budgets, and audit trails are misplaced in the AI model harness rather than a unified orchestration control plane. Using a supplier invoice dispute example, the post illustrates how separating the model, agent harness, durable execution, and control plane layers keeps agentic AI projects manageable. The piece notes that value is shifting toward orchestration layers as base models rapidly commoditize. Open article →