The Death of the Strategy Pattern: Why Java’s Sealed Hierarchies Rule 2026 Agentic Workflows

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The Death of the Strategy Pattern: Why Java’s Sealed Hierarchies Rule 2026 Agentic Workflows In 2026, building high-scale agentic systems without compile-time safety is professional negligence. If your LLM orchestration logic still relies on traditional polymorphic dispatch to handle state transitions, you are one unhandled "edge case" away from a production meltdown.