Agentic AI Switching Costs: The Vendor Trap Nobody's Talking About

The pitch is irresistible: deploy an AI agent, automate the work, watch headcount requirements drop. But buried in that narrative is a silent trap that most teams don't see until they're already locked in.

Switching costs in agentic AI aren't like switching a SaaS tool. They're architectural. They're painful. And they're designed to get worse over time.