A missed date can disprove a career forecast without settling whether the underlying work is still worth pursuing. Ownership, recognition, and market response provide the next decision tests.
Architectural ambition is delivering the strongest version of a system's purpose with the fewest independently meaningful mechanisms that can become wrong.
Exploratory claim · Current · Agent infrastructure
Model allowance, reset time, latency, cost, and concurrency should influence where agent work runs without becoming durable rules that redefine the work.
A reference architecture is a set of ideas to test, not a target to copy. It can suggest capabilities, controls, and common failure modes; local strategy and evidence decide which parts survive.