Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Cloud computing promised efficiency, scalability, and reliability. But as AI workloads grow more complex, many enterprises are learning the hard way that these promises don’t come automatically. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with Linthicum Research founder David Linthicum to talk through the real state of hybrid cloud strategy and enterprise architecture in the age of cloud computing and AI.

Agent-powered code generation is happening at unprecedented speed, creating a growing gap between development velocity and your ability to validate what's being built. This leaves organizations unsure if their applications are doing what's intended or missing what's required. That's why SmartBear delivers application integrity for the AI era – ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that your software just works as intended, with governance to operate at AI speed and scale.

The AI revolutionized coding, but software testing hasn’t caught up. Until now. Meet BearQ: QA built for the age of AI. BearQ introduces a new paradigm of autonomous, agentic quality assurance. Instead of static scripts and brittle frameworks, BearQ’s specialized AI agents – the QA Lead Agent, Tester Agent, and Explorer Agent – work continuously to: Testing was a static checkpoint. Now it’s a living, learning system that ensures application integrity.

Project SnowWork empowers business teams to automate multi-step workflows end-to-end, and drive real outcomes. Create revenue snapshots, diagnose missed forecasts, and generate summary slides with next steps — all without any coding experience needed.

In this episode of, *Steve Jordan* and *Shafreen Anfar* from WSO2 explore how integration is paving the way for the agentic enterprise, where humans and AI agents collaborate to drive business success. They discuss how seamless connectivity across systems provides agents with the real-time context and ability to take action that is necessary to scale AI from simple pilots to full-scale production. The conversation also highlights the importance of robust security, governance, and observability in managing this new digital workforce.

2025 was vibe coding. 2026 is Agentic Engineering - and the security rules haven't caught up. AI agents now have direct access to your databases, your APIs, your Kafka clusters. The protocol giving them that access is MCP. And most teams have no idea how exposed they are. We are fixing this problem with OAuth 2.1.

AI native development requires AI native testing because testing teams now face code generated not just by developers, but by AI agents as well. To keep pace and maintain quality, testers need comparable AI-powered capabilities that can generate, assist, and scale testing alongside AI-driven development, helping level the playing field and support faster, more efficient delivery — Coty Rosenblath, Chief Technology Officer at Katalon.