From Gulf Coast Pipe Racks to AI Agent Orchestration: The Engineer's Path

I spent six years designing pipe racks and equipment platforms for Gulf Coast oil and gas facilities. Now I also build AI agent systems that run six businesses. These two things are not as different as they sound. Structural Engineering as a Mental Model Structural engineering teaches you to think in systems. Every element has a load path. Every load path has a failure mode. You design for the failure mode before you design for the load. AI agent architecture works the same way. Every agent has an input path.