From Traceability to Justifiability: Accountability Structures in Agentic Software Engineering
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Rashid Azarang
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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Version integers behind mutable pointers are the default on most AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → platforms, which means your deployment record cannot actually prove the agent you evaluated is the one now running in production.
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