1、The Agentic AI Advantage:Hype,Reality,and What Comes Nextust two years ago,the term AI agent barely registered outside research labs.Today,AI agents are one of the most hyped topics in techand its not hard to understand why.The pitch is a powerful one:AI agents can take care of time-consuming tasks

2、so you dont have to.They can plan,make decisions,and use tools to take actions and achieve goals on your behalf.Proponents suggest they might do anything from organizing your business meetings to maintaining your software systems.In time,some claim,AI agents will take on tasks of extraordinary lengt

3、h and complexity.“I think that people will ask an agent to do something for them that would have taken them a month,”said OpenAIs CEO Sam Altman late last year.“And theyll finish in an hour.”Global investment in AI agent-related startups has also duly exploded,with more than$2.8 billion flowing into

4、 the space in the first half of 2025 alone.Ninety three percent of IT leaders say they plan to implement AI agents before the end of 2026,and mentions of agentic AIa term typically used to describe an AI system comprising agentshave soared by 275 percent in company earnings calls.To “AI maximalists,

5、”AI agents dont merely represent an incremental advance in what software can do,but a generational leapone that stands to do much more than simply improve personal and corporate productivity.The bull case is that agentic AI will reimagine how organizations operate,rewire how economies function,and o

6、pen up new possibilities for how we live and work.“Agentic AI is a transformative technological advance that will drive step-change productivity improvement and innovation across industries,”says Gene Reznik,Chief Strategy Officer at Thoughtworks.“It will allow enterprises and governments to reimagi