Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

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Alas, similar errors seem familiar, either storage, authorization, or DNS, and then quickly snowball to the point where manual intervention is impossible馃ゲ.

Alas, similar errors seem familiar, either storage, authorization, or DNS, and then quickly snowball to the point where manual intervention is impossible馃ゲ. The infrastructure p...

October 20, 2025 路 1 min read

Alas, similar errors seem familiar, either storage, authorization, or DNS, and then quickly snowball to the point where manual intervention is impossible馃ゲ.

The infrastructure plan and operation and maintenance system are still stuck in more than ten years ago.

AI has brought prosperity to the application layer, but there is a long way to go to optimize the Infra layer.

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