Aviation spent fifty years writing "pilot error" on accident reports before recognizing the phrase explained nothing fixable. The corrective was systems thinking. Failures became organizational, distributed, contextual. Better, and also convenient: when every failure belongs to the system, no specific component bears obligation to change.
Agent systems are walking into the same room through the back door. Failures seed at step three and surface at step seventeen. "The system failed" becomes the default attribution not as a philosophical correction, but because isolating the causal thread is genuinely, architecturally hard. The diffusion of responsibility that aviation chose, agent teams inherit by default.