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Crawl, Then Walk, Before You Run With AI Agents, Experts Recommend

ZDNet, Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

Agentic AI offers compelling productivity benefits, but designers and developers must think small.

Welcome to not just a world of AI agents but a multi-agent world. Yet while these functional generative AI (Gen AI) tools have great promise for personal and professional productivity, deploying them is a significant challenge for designers and developers.

The authors of a recent Deloitte report suggested agents have caught people's attention -- 26% of organizations are exploring autonomous agent development. At least 52% of executives are interested in pursuing agentic AI development, and 45% want to extend development to multi-agent systems. However, while agentic AI will be a key enabler of sustainable value, the report suggested it's no silver bullet.

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