Managed Agent Runtimes Still Need a Control Plane

<p>On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code — its flagship AI coding agent — inside a routine npm update. No hack. No reverse

<p>Vertex AI has been Google Cloud's AI development platform since 2021. On April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google retired it — not with a deprecation notice,

<p>What three independent research groups concluded in early 2026 — and what it means for anyone building agent pipelines today</p> <p>In the first quarter of 2026, at least three

<p>Four agents entered an infinite loop in November 2025. They ran for 11 days. The bill was $47,000. Nobody noticed until it was over.</p> <p>The team was running a market

<ul> <li>GitHub repository: <a href="https://github.com/gezilinll/agent-grove" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/gezilinll/agent-grove</a> </li> <li>Online

<p>I was sitting in a demo from the head of architecture when the problem clicked into focus. He was showing how his team had moved everything out of Confluence and into Markdown

<p>A few weeks back I gave a coding agent one instruction: <em>"fix the failing import and ship it."</em></p> <p>CI went green. The agent, which I'd allowed to self-merge when

<p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> I built the same browser agent twice — once with 500 lines of Python, once with 7 lines of JSON. The second one took 5 minutes. The agent harness layer