The agent problem nobody budgeted for
THE SO WHAT
The real cost of agentic AI isn’t just compute — it’s governance, monitoring, and failure handling that nobody put in the 2024–2025 budgets. If you’re piloting agents, assume you’ll need a control plane, audit trail, and rollback strategy long before you scale usage.
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