
Bringing agents back down to earth
Agentic AI, beneath all the hype, is actually just normal software. You can build agentic systems with a database, standard web tooling and real-time sync.
Agentic system demo using Postgres with a real-time sync stack.
Burn is a multi-user, multi-agent demo app built on TanStack DB and Phoenix.Sync.
It shows how to build an agentic system on real-time sync, where:
Agentic memory and shared state are both just rows in the database.
There's a lot of hype around agentic system development. Concepts like agentic memory, instruction routing, retrieval and context engineering.
When you dig into it, these all collapse down to processes and database state. You can build agentic systems with a database, standard web tooling and real-time sync.