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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
Anti-patternv1AP-026

Agents-as-permanent-installations anti-pattern

treating cognitive agents as permanent fixtures rather than living systems that require maintenance and eventual retirement, leading to accumulated cognitive debt from obsolete processes that no one questions

Why This Is an Anti-Pattern

Inverts agent-lifecycle (Agent-lifecycle pattern). Violates Most organizational outcomes are products of system design…. Recurs in legacy processes, "we've always done it this way," institutional inertia, personal routine calcification.