4 Recs For CIOs As They Implement Agentic AI
CIO, Monday, May 5th, 2025
Despite the hype, CIOs agree there's an approaching reset of agentic AI expectations. Here's how they're preparing, while still pacing with purpose.
Last year, in 5 ways CIOs can help gen AI achieve its lightbulb moment, I wrote about how we were in more of a gaslamp moment, with widespread experiments and accidents, as opposed to a true lightbulb moment. I noted then that despite the current level of hype and mainstream adoption, gen AI still needed to experience an expectation reset before embarking on a path to peak productivity.
Today, the hype is even more exaggerated with agentic AI as we read daily proclamations about the end of traditional consulting and programming. And we're told we should be implementing projects in minutes or hours, not days or weeks. Seasoned influencers, to their credit, add caveats such as 'for prototypes, not production.'