The write-up: https://www.civic.com/field-notes/if-your-team-cant-change-the-agent-you-dont-control-it Source, public. Gartner newsroom, Sep 29: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-09-29-gartner-predicts-70-percent-of-enterprises-will-abandon-agentic-ai-built-by-vendor-forward-deployed-engineering-by-2028 Reply to @civickey: The question that sums them up: if the vendor's engineers left tomorrow, could your team keep running it? A working demo tells you the agent can launch. Those three questions tell you whether your team can live with it.