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7 Predictions for How Enterprise Backend Teams Will Redesign Their Agentic Deployment Pipelines as MCP Standardization Forces a Reckoning With Vendor-Specific Tool Integration Assumptions by Q4 2026
There is a quiet but seismic shift underway in enterprise AI infrastructure. For the past two years, backend teams have been building agentic systems the only way they knew how: stitching together vendor-specific SDKs, proprietary tool-calling schemas, and bespoke integration layers that work beautifully in demos and become liabilities in