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Ten years ago, "the cloud" was controversial. CIOs debated whether it was safe to put critical workloads on someone else's infrastructure. Five years ago, "AI" was experimental. Companies ran pilots, but production deployments were rare outside tech giants.

Today, cloud is infrastructure. AI is expected. The debates have moved on.

Agentic AI is where cloud and AI were at their inflection points. Right now, it's new and uncertain. In five years, it will be assumed. The enterprises that figure it out early will have compounding advantages over those who wait.

AI assistants answer questions. Agentic systems get work done.

Last year, I watched a senior engineer spend three days coordinating a product launch. Not building. Not designing. Coordinating—pinging Slack channels, updating Jira tickets, chasing approvals, compiling status reports, scheduling meetings to discuss other meetings.

This is what enterprise work has become: talented humans doing robotic coordination work while AI chatbots answer trivia questions on the side.