Agentic Mesh in the Wild

You've heard the pitch. Autonomous agents collaborating like a well-run engineering team, decomposing problems, dividing labour, converging on solutions. The "Internet for Agents." The agentic mesh. Here's what nobody tells you at the conference keynote: the mesh is real, it's in production, and it's already teaching us lessons that will reshape how we build software. But those lessons aren't the ones the slide decks promise. The State of Play Multi-agent systems crossed from research curiosity to production reality in 2025. Not everywhere—not yet in most places—but in enough places, at enough scale, that patterns are emerging. Cursor is running hundreds of concurrent agents generating millions of lines of code. Anthropic ships multi-agent research to every Claude user. Salesforce's Agentforce has 150+ enterprise deployments and calls it their fastest-growing product ever. Tyson Foods and Gordon Food Service have agents from different companies talking to each other over Google's A2A p