AnalysisAI AgentsAugust 15, 2026

Per-developer environments were the goal. Agents moved the goalposts.

Tracks 60 years of shrinking multi-tenancy — from mainframe time-sharing slicing machines by department, to virtualization, to per-developer environments — and argues AI agents break the model, changing who owns the environment and how infrastructure isolates work.

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Per-developer environments were the goal. Agents moved the goalposts. — AIBriefs