--- title: New agentic compute patterns | daily.dev description: Kubernetes was designed for stateless, short-lived HTTP workloads, but AI agents are long-running, stateful processes that require fundamentally different... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/new-agentic-compute-patterns-smqgdscbc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: New agentic compute patterns | daily.dev og:description: Kubernetes was designed for stateless, short-lived HTTP workloads, but AI agents are long-running, stateful processes that require fundamentally different... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/new-agentic-compute-patterns-smqgdscbc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SmqgdScbc.png og:image:alt: New agentic compute patterns og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # New agentic compute patterns **[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kubernetes was designed for stateless, short-lived HTTP workloads, but AI agents are long-running, stateful processes that require fundamentally different infrastructure. Agent execution demands millisecond environment provisioning, durable state management across task lifecycles, multi-agent coordination primitives, and scoped credentials per session. The Kubernetes community has acknowledged this gap with the Agent Sandbox project under SIG Apps, introducing new CRD-based abstractions for singleton stateful agents. Real-world evidence from Ramp's internal coding agent (Inspect) shows that when execution infrastructure is purpose-built for agents — with filesystem snapshots, isolated VMs, and deep tooling integrations — agents can handle 30% of all merged pull requests. Current Kubernetes clusters show CPU utilization as low as 8% and CPU overprovisioning at 69%, reflecting how poorly traditional schedulers handle agent workloads. Security threat models also change significantly: a compromised agent exposes every system it can reach, requiring kernel-level isolation and agent-aware observability as baseline requirements. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Kubernetes won the container decade. 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