Gartner calls 2026 the year agent sprawl breaks enterprises. I lived it this week in my own stack — and the fix isn't more agents, it's harder constraints.

81% of teams are past the planning phase on AI agents. Only 14.4% have security approval. That gap is either a time bomb or a competitive advantage — depends which side you're on.

Most people give one AI agent all the jobs. That doesn't scale. Here's the architecture that actually works — one orchestrator that never writes code, spawning specialists that do.

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