thoughts on why AI agents are starting to look like SaaS billing systems
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Came across this pattern while writing about enterprise AI infra recently. A lot of teams think the hard part is model quality, but once agents hit production scale the real problems become orchestration, retries, entitlements, rate limits, and auditability. Pretty much the same operational mess SaaS billing teams dealt with years ago. The line we ended up linking back to a lot was “ agents in 2026 are the billing systems of 2017 ”. submitted by /u/leobesat [link] [comments]