STELLA à l’ère des agents IA : pourquoi un rapport de 2017 sur la complexité des systèmes est plus pertinent que jamais
Summary
This article revisits the STELLA report from 2017 and applies its lessons to today’s AI agents, highlighting the concept of hidden technical debt and the importance of governance, observability, and blameless postmortems. It outlines seven concrete practices to manage complex, autonomous systems as they integrate into development and operations, and argues that STELLA’s insights remain highly relevant for modern software engineering.