'We have maybe 20 months' to rebuild for AI agents, Meta's infrastructure VP tells VB Transform 2026

Organizations need to transform to meet the needs of agentic AI.Meta VP of Engineering Barak Yagour opened his talk at VB Transform 2026 wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, a small sign of how far AI has already worked its way into physical life. His argument went further: enterprise infrastructure was built for humans, not for agents, and it's starting to show.Yagour, who leads its data infrastructure organization, told the audience that agentic queries hitting Meta's data systems grew 30x in a single half, an inversion that he said is breaking assumptions the company spent two decades building around.The shift is not confined to Meta. Automated traffic overtook human traffic on the internet last year, reaching 51% of the total, according to Imperva's 2025 Bad Bot Report. That traf