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Many companies are disappointed when an AI assistant does not instantly remove effort from a job. The disappointment comes from a bad mental model: the first real effect of workplace AI is usually more scrutiny, more handoffs, and sharper judgment calls.
Most companies do not fail with AI because the model is weak. They fail because the workflow was never as clean or as legible as leadership imagined, and AI exposes that mess faster than any consultant ever could.
Autonomous agents will be adopted faster when they are less mysterious, not more. In software teams especially, traceability is becoming a feature every bit as important as raw capability.