API Design

5 Dangerous Myths Enterprise Backend Teams Still Believe About AI Agent Schema Validation (That Are Silently Corrupting Your Multi-Agent Workflows in H2 2026)

AI Agents

5 Dangerous Myths Enterprise Backend Teams Still Believe About AI Agent Schema Validation (That Are Silently Corrupting Your Multi-Agent Workflows in H2 2026)

You shipped the orchestration layer. The agents are running. The dashboards show green. And somewhere, three hops deep inside a multi-step agentic workflow, a downstream agent just swallowed a malformed payload, hallucinated a field value to fill the gap, and wrote confidently wrong data into a production database. Nobody got

By Scott Miller
Structured Outputs vs. Function Calling vs. Tool Use: Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Getting Agent Response Contracts Wrong in 2026

AI Agents

Structured Outputs vs. Function Calling vs. Tool Use: Why Enterprise Backend Teams Are Getting Agent Response Contracts Wrong in 2026

Picture this: your orchestration layer fires a planning subagent, receives what looks like a perfectly shaped JSON blob, passes it downstream to a fulfillment agent running on a different provider, and watches the whole pipeline silently corrupt a customer order. No exception. No schema violation raised. Just wrong data flowing

By Scott Miller
9 Ways Enterprise Backend Teams Are Retrofitting Legacy Monoliths to Safely Expose Internal APIs as Agentic Tool Endpoints Without Triggering Cascading Failures in 2026

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9 Ways Enterprise Backend Teams Are Retrofitting Legacy Monoliths to Safely Expose Internal APIs as Agentic Tool Endpoints Without Triggering Cascading Failures in 2026

There is a quiet crisis unfolding inside enterprise engineering organizations right now. The AI agent revolution did not wait for anyone to finish their modernization roadmaps. By early 2026, product teams across financial services, healthcare, logistics, and retail are demanding that their shiny new agentic workflows, powered by orchestration frameworks

By Scott Miller