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When AI Drives, Who’s in Control? — Reclaiming Determinism in Agentic Systems

A car does not care whether an AI answer is impressive. It cares whether the answer arrives before the intersection. That small timing problem is where a large part of today’s agentic AI discussion becomes unserious. We keep asking whether models are smart enough to act. In cyber-physical systems, the more painful question is whether the system around the model can make action repeatable, bounded, and recoverable when the model is late, vague, or simply wrong. ...

April 14, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina