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.

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.

> 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>

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.