Everything Becomes an Agent

One thing that worries me about the “everything becomes an agent” framing is that it collapses coordination cost into abstraction. In real systems once everything is agentized, the dominant failure mode isn’t intelligence but loss of dimensional integrity / unclear authority boundaries, error amplification, and feedback loops that only appear under load.

At scale the hard problem seems less about making more capable agents and more about constraining where agency is allowed to exist so coordination geometry stays stable. Some components benefit from agency… others need to remain invariant anchors.

Curious how people are thinking about architectural limits here… not “can this be an agent?” But “what breaks if it is?”