Martin Fowler Publishes a Bayer Case Study on Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems (195 pts on HN)

Martin Fowler / Hacker News·low signal

A new martinfowler.com article documenting how Bayer engineers reliability into production agentic AI systems hit the Hacker News front page (195 points, 50 comments). It is a rare primary-practitioner account — not vendor marketing — covering guardrails, evaluation, and failure handling for agents running in a regulated enterprise. The community engagement reflects the maturing 2026 shift from 'can agents work' to 'how do we make agents dependable in production.'