Evan Volgas wrote a great piece on agentic AI and his issues with its widespread proliferation and the various problems they generate:
The problem is not AI. The problem is “agentic everything”: the assumption that autonomy is progress, that removing humans is the objective, that governance can come later.
The governance cannot come later. The companies shipping agents without controls are building the next incident. The companies building data contracts, audit logs, and kill switches first are building something that might actually work.
The quote came from the end of the post as a good summation but I recommend you read through all the references and examples to see just how bad it is now and how much worse “agentic everything” can (and will) get if it continues to grow.
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