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by maxbond 121 days ago
What's the advantage in putting agents in the persistence layer rather than the application layer? This seems to me strictly less flexible, scalable, secure, easy to work with... I am having a hard time imagining why I would want to integrate with APIs or write an agentic harness in the database rather than in application code?

Maybe I'm behind the times but I don't understand.
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4ndrewl 121 days ago
It's similar to when we wrote all our business logic in eg pl/sql, stored procedures etc. Seems attractive at first, but it breaks separation of concerns, becomes difficult to test etc.
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thatwasunusual 121 days ago
> It's similar to when we wrote all our business logic in eg pl/sql [...]

What do you mean with "when"? /s

I dread companies who still have logic in their databases when it's not necessary. <insert sad face>

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SOLAR_FIELDS 120 days ago
The real fun begins when you encounter a system where someone thought it was a good idea to store source code in the database rows.
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