Architect warns agentic AI is repeating the cloud-native and microservices hype cycle
DavidLinthicum · x · 2026-11-05
Veteran architect David Linthicum argues agentic AI is following a familiar tech pattern: moving from 'interesting capability' to the default answer in every architecture discussion.
He traces the recurring cycle through distributed objects/CORBA, SOA, microservices, and cloud-native/Kubernetes — powerful enabling technologies that were valuable in the right use cases but routinely over-applied as universal solutions, leaving teams to 'recover' years later.
His point isn't that agentic AI lacks value, but that teams should carefully judge whether it actually fits their problem instead of blindly following the trend.
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