By Dwayne McDaniel
Publication Date: 2026-01-09 16:39:00
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a broad field with many practical applications. In recent years, we’ve seen explosive growth in generative AI, driven by systems like ChatGPT, Copilot, and other interactive tools that help developers write code and users create content. More recently, we have also seen the rise of “Agentic AI,” where orchestrators coordinate actions across one or more AI agents to perform tasks on behalf of a user.
While that may sound futuristic even here in 2026, the reality is a bit simpler.
AI systems, no matter how they are used, are just processes that run on machines. They can live on a laptop, in a container, in a virtual machine, or deep in a cloud environment. Essentially, they are software that executes instructions, albeit probabilistic rather than hard-coded deterministic programs. And like every other subsystem we’ve ever built, they need a way to communicate securely.
This is where our real problem lies…
