Golden Paths for AI agents: What changes when platform users aren't human?
Agents are already calling your self-service APIs, querying your catalog, and independently provisioning resources around the clock. According to Gartner’s 2026 Hype Cycle for Agentic AI report, agents have had the most aggressive adoption curve of any emerging technology. Gartner even considers agents to be a formal user persona, referring to the agent experience (AX) throughout the report.