LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design
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Modern web architecture assumes stateless servers and databases handle everything, but AI agents are breaking that model by running long tasks, holding memory across steps, and needing real-time interaction. Current workarounds like polling a database are slow and wasteful. The real fix is a "routing primitive" — specifically pub/sub channels — that lets clients communicate directly with long-running processes without losing the connection or wasting resources.
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