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85% Pilot, 5% Ship: The AI Agent Deployment Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About
Cisco data reveals a staggering gap between AI agent pilots and production deployments. Amazon's AGI director explains why reliability — not capability — is the real bottleneck, and what it'll take to close the gap.
Lavamgam AIJul 16, 20268 min read readbusiness
The Big Number That Changes Everything
Eighty-five percent of enterprises are piloting AI agents. Five percent have shipped them to production. That's not a rounding error or a projection — it's hard data from Cisco, and it's the single most revealing statistic about the state of enterprise AI in 2026.
At VB Transform 2026 this week, Bryan Silverthorn, Director of AGI Autonomy at Amazon, laid this number bare and then did something rare for a tech conference: he explained why it's...
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