Beyond Scripts: The Shift From Automation to Agentic AI

Industry engineering has transformed over the past decade. Nearly every function is now automated from integration and testing to deployment and observability. But as systems have grown more complex with cloud workloads, distributed microservices and changing dependencies, traditional automation has reached its limits.

Static scripts and hard-coded playbooks are great at following instructions; however, when something unexpected happens, they’re stuck. They can’t think or adapt. When traffic spikes, dependencies fail or costs shift…