Agent Sprawl is Your Next Production Incident: An SRE Response to Datadog's State of AI Engineering 2026

Datadog published the State of AI Engineering 2026 report this week — real telemetry from over a thousand production environments. Read it. It is the most comprehensive look at AI in production available right now. I want to respond from the reliability engineering perspective, because the data reveals a problem the report names but doesn't fully resolve: agent sprawl is now a production reliability crisis, and the SRE discipline does not yet have governance frameworks for it. What the Data Show