Agentic AI Replicates Infrastructure's Architectural Blind Spot—Ungoverned Control Planes Return

Agentic AI systems are unknowingly rebuilding infrastructure's most dangerous failure pattern: ungoverned control planes with unbounded execution authority. Organizations treat AI agents as applications, but they function as autonomous control planes making decisions across systems they don't own, creating systemic risks through credential amplification and lack of isolation safeguards. This architectural regression will drive some of 2026's most expensive enterprise failures, as teams deploy the very governance model that a decade of infrastructure incidents taught us to eliminate.