Vinith Raj

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Designing a Minimal Agentic Orchestrator

December 25, 2025 / Leave a Comment

The Orchestrator: Owning the Loop In the previous article, we established a simple but often misunderstood idea: an agent is not an autonomous entity. An agent is a loop. It observes input, reasons about the current situation, proposes a next step, executes that step through predefined mechanisms, observes the result, and then either continues or … [Read more…]

Posted in: Agentic AI, Series Tagged: agentic ai, agentic systems, ai control loops, ai infrastructure, ai orchestration, ai safety architecture, backend engineering, deterministic execution, distributed systems, llm architecture, llm orchestration, local llm, ollama, on-prem ai, orchestrator design, reasoning vs execution, software architecture, system design, tool-based ai

Agentic AI Series – Introduction

December 19, 2025 / Leave a Comment

Agentic AI has quickly become one of those terms that carries more weight than clarity. Depending on where you encounter it, it is either framed as the next inevitable step toward autonomous systems or dismissed as unnecessary complexity layered on top of language models. Both views miss the point. Agentic AI is neither magical nor … [Read more…]

Posted in: Agentic AI, Articles, Series, Systems Architecture Tagged: agentic ai, ai agents, ai infrastructure, ai system design, applied ai, distributed systems, llm orchestration, llm systems, microservices architecture, on-prem ai, software orchestration, systems architecture, workflow orchestration