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S2 Episode 13|026 The Readiness Illusion: Why the AI Agent Era’s Loudest Claims Outrun the Evidence
The Readiness Illusion: Why the AI Agent Era’s Loudest Claims Outrun the Evidence
The agent era is real. We are not yet ready for it. Both of those statements can be true at the same time.
In this solo episode, Kevin Novak names The Readiness Illusion: the assumption that capability and readiness are the same thing. A system that can act in a controlled demonstration is not a system that should act on real customer data with real consequences. The distance between those two states is filled with trust, governance, judgment, error recovery, and the slow work of building human capacity.
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