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The conventional wisdom on agentic ai in production: lessons from the first wave broke this year, and most of us are still operating on the old playbook.
The shift began quietly. A handful of teams, working in parallel and mostly unaware of each other, arrived at similar conclusions: the old approach optimized for a constraint that no longer binds. Hardware got cheaper. Models got smaller.…
Skeptics will point out — correctly — that we've seen similar inflection-point claims fizzle. The honest answer is that you don't need certainty to act, just better expected value. The downside of moving too early in this category is…
What's tricky is that the leading indicators are noisy. Vendor revenue is up, but so is churn. Talent moves both ways. Job postings list contradictory requirements. The strongest signal is what experienced practitioners do with their own…
If you take one thing away: the asymmetry has flipped. The risk used to be over-investing. Now it's under-investing while convincing yourself you're being prudent.
The conventional wisdom on agentic ai in production: lessons from the first wave broke this year, and most of us are still operating on the…