Scaling agentic AI from prototype to production in 2026 surfaces five major challenges: orchestration complexity that grows exponentially in multi-agent systems, immature observability tooling that can't trace non-deterministic execution paths, unpredictable and rapidly escalating LLM token costs, lack of mature evaluation and
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Introduction1. Orchestration Complexity Explodes Fast2. Observability Is Still Way Behind3. Cost Management Gets Tricky at Scale4. Evaluation and Testing Are an Open Problem5. Governance and Safety Guardrails Lag Behind CapabilityFinal ThoughtsSort: