A card gets declined and no one, including the customer, can say exactly why. That gray zone is where Divakar Kumar points his agents. In a payments and fraud system, a rule based engine and an ML model already score most transactions cleanly; the hard cases are the ambiguous ones that neither can resolve.
Let's integrate AI Agents in Event-Sourced Systems — Divakar Kumar, FlyersSoft
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