Messaging in the Age of AI
Pravin Khandke
Messaging infrastructure has been boring for a decade. Queues, topics, exchanges — the primitives settled. Then AI agents arrived, and suddenly the assumptions that made messaging boring stopped holding. Messages are no longer just data. They are context. An agent will read your message, reason over it, call tools because of it, and generate responses whose token count you cannot predict at enqueue time. The transport layer that worked fine for deterministic services needs to be rethought — not