Stop Paving the Cowpath: Why Agentic-First Is the Only Way to Build for the Enterprise
Stop Paving the Cowpath: Why Agentic-First Is the Only Way to Build for the Enterprise
In the long arc of technology, Artificial General Intelligence may be looming somewhere beyond the horizon—faint, inevitable, and over-discussed. But in the enterprise—where risk is institutionalized and change moves at human speed—we are not ready to hand the keys to the machines. Not yet.
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