Cheap AI Agents Won't Solve Your Execution Problem

The proliferation of agentic AI—software that autonomously completes tasks rather than requiring human input—is creating a dangerous gap between access and competence. Organizations will soon have abundant machine intelligence capable of handling routine work, but deploying these agents effectively requires new operational frameworks, trust architectures, and human oversight models that most companies haven't begun building. The real constraint is governance: do we actually know how to integrate autonomous systems into our workflows without creating liability or chaos?