Enterprises Reapply Mainframe Principles To Agentic AI

On Feb. 21, 2026, Sai Krishnan Mohan argues that enterprises adopting Agentic AI should revive mainframe-era governance principles to manage autonomy and trust. He contrasts deterministic, rule-based mainframe workflows with probabilistic, agentic systems and highlights robust controls like change control, audit trails, idempotency. He advises engineering trust through clear boundaries, predictable execution, and built-in fail-safes to ensure reliability at scale.
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