5 Things That Go Horribly Wrong When You Run AI Agents Without a Gateway (And How to Stop the Bleeding)

Running one AI agent? Cute. Running ten? Now we're talking. Running fifty agents in production with no gateway, no governance, and a Slack channel called #agents-prod that nobody reads? That's how you end up on a Monday morning call explaining to your CFO why the LLM bill went from $4K to $61K over the weekend, and why nobody noticed until accounting flagged it. I've watched this movie too many times. The plot is always the same. Someone reads about agentic AI on a Tuesday, ships a proof of conc