MCP
MCP Sampling vs. Direct LLM API Calls vs. Embedded Model Sidecars: Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Getting Agent-Initiated Inference Wrong in 2026
There is a quiet architectural crisis unfolding inside enterprise backend teams right now. As agentic AI workflows have moved from experimental to production, engineering teams have been forced to answer a question that nobody adequately prepared them for: when an agent needs to perform inference mid-task, how exactly should that