#reliability-engineering

#reliability-engineering

His central message was that reliability comes from combining probabilistic components with deterministic boundaries. Erickson argued agentic AI becomes more interesting when it is treated as a layer over real operational systems rather than a replacement for them. The model can interpret questions, retrieve evidence, classify situations, and suggest actions. Deterministic systems execute the actions, enforce the constraints, and provide the telemetry that allows the whole loop to be evaluated.