AI Agents Think in Milliseconds, but Legacy Infrastructure Doesn't — And That's Why They Fail

The Signal

At VB Transform 2026 this week, three infrastructure leaders from LinkedIn, Walmart, and Zendesk took the stage and delivered a verdict that should make every enterprise AI team sit up: the bottleneck slowing down AI agents isn't the models—it's the legacy infrastructure underneath them. "Most enterprise infrastructure was built for how humans work, not for how agents work," said Desiree Gosby, SVP of corporate technology services and technology strategy at Walmart, summarizing a...