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Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design (opens in a new tab)

Agentic AI systems and database design assumptions

Hacker News· Apr 24, 2026· 8/10

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There is an implicit contract at the foundation of every database architecture decision you have ever made. You probably never wrote it down. Nobody does. It just… existed. The contract goes something like this: the caller is a human-authored application, running deterministic code, issuing predictable queries, reviewed by a developer before deployment. Writes are intentional. Connections are brief. When something goes wrong, a human notices. The database can be dumb and fast because the…

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