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The Agent Layer: When AI Stops Being a Tool and Becomes Infrastructure

When AI agents shift from experimental tools to operational infrastructure, three failure modes emerge: unsustainable costs, trust gaps, and control questions that could determine whether this transition strengthens or destabilizes the organizations betting on it.

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Introduction

Something shifted this week, and it was not a single headline.

A Wall Street Journal analysis argued that lean AI startups are turning their small headcounts into competitive advantages -- not despite their size, but because of it. A researcher published an open-source framework showing that [Bayesian decision...

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