The Death of the Strategy Pattern: Why Java’s Sealed Hierarchies Rule 2026 Agentic Workflows

The Death of the Strategy Pattern: Why Java’s Sealed Hierarchies Rule 2026 Agentic Workflows In 2026, building high-scale agentic systems without compile-time safety is professional negligence. If your LLM orchestration logic still relies on traditional polymorphic dispatch to handle state transitions, you are one unhandled "edge case" away from a production meltdown. Why Most Developers Get This Wrong The "Strategy Pattern" Trap: Developers still wrap agent behaviors in interface implementation