--- title: "Vision" canonical: "https://current.tinyfish.ai/issue/22/vision" publication: "TinyFish" publisher: "TinyFish" language: "en-US" guide: "https://current.tinyfish.ai/llms.txt" permalink: "https://current.tinyfish.ai/issue/22/vision" issue: 22 section: "vision" description: "Where human-AI collaboration is heading" authors: ["Nora Kaplan"] published: 2026-03-30 updated: 2026-03-26 articles: 10 --- # TinyFish > CURRENT is a journal about AI agents in production, for the engineering and product leaders who have to make them work. Drawing on experience building enterprise web agents, it explains why the demo succeeded and the deployment didn't, and what that means for choosing vendors, briefing the board, and avoiding mistakes others have already made. [Read on the website]() ## Issue 22 — Vision Where human-AI collaboration is heading ### The Structural Problem - [The Org Chart Nobody Drew]() — By [Nora Kaplan]() · Published 2026-03-25 · Format: The Structural Problem The average enterprise now runs 37 AI agents. Most were never reviewed by a security team. More than half operate without logging. Only about a quarter of organizations can see which of their agents are talking to each other. RSA 2026 mobilized around this problem. Governance tools, identity platforms, discovery engines. Threat containment was the universal pitch. ### Two Faces of It - [Who Answers for the Agent]() — By [Nora Kaplan]() · Published 2026-03-25 · Format: Two Faces of It When an AI agent updates the wrong record or routes an approval to the wrong person, the org chart offers no answer about who's responsible. Enterprises have embraced "agents as team members," but team members exercise judgment before acting. Agents don't pause. Someone will eventually own the consequences of non-human decisions. The tooling for that person is already being built. The role just doesn't have a name yet, possibly because nobody wants the job. - [The Pressure Gradient]() — By [Nora Kaplan]() · Published 2026-03-25 · Format: Two Faces of It The first piece looks up and down the org chart for who owns an agent's mistakes. This one looks across it, at what happens when two functions can't agree on whether the agent should have been deployed at all. Ninety percent of organizations pressure security teams to loosen identity controls for AI. Both sides are behaving rationally. Their reward structures just point in opposite directions, and better dashboards won't reconcile them. ### The Discovery Moment - [Forty-Three Agents Nobody Hired — One VP's Reckoning with Shadow AI]() — Published 2026-03-25 *The following is a hypothetical interview. Priya Castellano is a composite character — not a real person, but a construction drawn from verified industry data, regulatory filings, and the reported experiences of enterprise technology leaders in financial services. Every statistic cited is real. The person citing them is not. We think the conversation is more honest for it.* ### The Market Response - ["Control Plane for Agents" Is Now a Product Category. That Tells Us More Than the Product Does.]() — Published 2026-03-25 Microsoft's Agent 365, generally available May 1 at $15 per user per month, is a governance layer for managing AI agents across the enterprise. The product is fine. The interesting part is what it takes for granted: that agent populations inside organizations have grown wild enough to need their own infrastructure. ### Going Deeper - **HBR: 'To Scale AI Agents Successfully, Think of Them Like Team Members'** — [Source]() — Published 2026-03-25 Carnegie Mellon and Pitt researchers frame agent deployment as workforce design, not software rollout. The HR analogy lands harder than expected. - **Gravitee: 'State of AI Agent Security 2026 Report: When Adoption Outpaces Control'** — [Source]() — Published 2026-03-25 82% of executives feel covered. Only 21% can actually see what their agents are doing. That gap is the whole story. - **Cisco Newsroom: 'Cisco Reimagines Security for the Agentic Workforce'** — [Source]() — Published 2026-03-25 Cisco extends Zero Trust to non-human identities at RSA 2026, retroactively building governance for agents nobody formally onboarded. - **Microsoft Security Blog: 'Secure Agentic AI End-to-End'** — [Source]() — Published 2026-03-25 Microsoft builds fleet-level agent governance into its stack. The control plane arrives after the workforce already showed up. - **The Hacker News: 'AI Agents: The Next Wave Identity Dark Matter'** — [Source]() — Published 2026-03-25 The sharpest metaphor circulating right now: agents as organizational mass exerting force without appearing on any reporting chain. ## Other sections in Issue 22 - [Daily Brief]() - [Market Pulse]() - [Foundations]() - [Practitioner's Corner]() - [Echoes]() ## More - [Publication guide]() - [Issue archive]()