From AI-assisted operations and cyber remediation to distributed enterprise workflows, consequential work increasingly traverses many systems before completion. 

As autonomous systems begin operating across long horizons, heterogeneous runtimes, and distributed trust boundaries, preserving governed action and continuity becomes increasingly operationally significant.

One can’t simply set and forget autonomous systems.

The next infrastructure challenge may not be making autonomous systems act. It may be preserving continuity, accountability, and governance after they begin moving work on their own.