https://toddwbucy.github.io/toddwbucy_research_blog/tags/statefulness/Recent content in Statefulness on Todd W. Bucy — Research BlogHugoen-usThu, 19 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0600https://toddwbucy.github.io/toddwbucy_research_blog/blog/2026/02/nobody-knows-what-an-agent-is/Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0600https://toddwbucy.github.io/toddwbucy_research_blog/blog/2026/02/nobody-knows-what-an-agent-is/<p><img src="https://toddwbucy.github.io/toddwbucy_research_blog/images/blog/nobody-knows-what-an-agent-is/image2.jpg" alt="" /></p> <h2 id="who-this-is-for">Who This Is For<a class="anchor" href="#who-this-is-for">#</a></h2> <p><strong>This is not a research paper.</strong> It is a diagnostic framework for practitioners, and it is deliberately written as one. Researchers are busy building the next model. This is for the people trying to make agents work in production. The engineers, architects, and technical leaders who get up every morning and face the real problem: how do you build agent systems that are reliable, predictable, and economically viable?</p>