Grounded Architecture - Table Stakes in the Agentic Age
Architecture discussions go sideways because everyone is reasoning at internally inconsistent altitudes, detailed where they’re fluent and hand-wavy where they’re not. C4 Level 2, the container diagram, is the altitude where abstraction stops lying: real processes, real protocols, real failure modes. That’s why it aligns humans, why the same framing works on LLM agents, and why fluency at this altitude is now table stakes for engineering in the agentic age.