You've wired up your AI agent to a dozen APIs. It can search the web, pull database records, call external services. It looks like a capable system on paper. But watch what it actually does at runtime. It fires off an HTTP request. Waits for DNS. Does the TLS handshake. Gets back HTML or JSON designed for a human interface. Parses it with fragile selectors or regex. Retries when the schema changed. Does it again, and again, for every piece of data it needs. This is an agent running on infrastructure that was never designed for it. The Numbers Tell the Story For every search a human makes, an AI agent performs 20-50x more requests. Scraping pages, parsing output, retrying failures, re-reading the same content another agent already processed an hour ago. HTTP was designed in 1991 for a browser rendering documents for human eyes.…