The Service Mesh Gap: Why Multi-Agent AI Systems Need Infrastructure Solutions

Multi-agent systems face a reliability crisis where chaining even 95%-reliable agents degrades overall system performance to 60% or worse. This mirrors the exact infrastructure challenge microservices solved with service mesh architecture in 2015. Without similar reliability patterns for AI agents, enterprises risk widespread agentic project failures, with Gartner predicting 40% cancellation rates by 2027.