Every few decades, infrastructure gets a new abstraction. We went from racking hardware to virtualizing it, then from clicking through consoles to writing infrastructure as code. Each shift changed who could build, how fast they could move, and what was possible to defend. The next abstraction isn’t coming. It’s already here. As Jeetu Patel captured, agentic AI is kicking off a networking supercycle — the era of managing critical infrastructure at human scale is over. What co