Agents, Checklists, and the New Architecture of Intelligence

Originally posted on trent.ai on November 18th 2025. Musings while traveling and speaking… Recently, after speaking at an industry event, it got me thinking about the evolution of agent architectures, these emerging systems of interconnected sub-agents that plan, remember, and act on our behalf. The excitement is palpable. Yet the more I see of them, the more they remind me of an unlikely genre: t