Jim Johnson

Why Karpathy’s “Decade of the Agent” Means You Need to Start Today Andrej Karpathy just handed executives everywhere what might sound like permission to wait. In a recent Dwarkesh Patel podcast, the AI expert said 2025 isn’t the “year of the agent,” it’s the “decade of the agent.” I can already hear the boardroom conversations:

Companies are betting big on AI, but very few are seeing the returns they expect. This leads to the inevitable question: why? Is the technology not good enough? The problem often isn’t the technology itself, but a fundamental misunderstanding of what it takes to make it successful. We’re conditioned to see new technology as a

MIT’s NANDA initiative just published a study that confirms what those of us in the trenches have been seeing: 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable business value. Despite $30-40 billion in enterprise investment, only 5% of pilots progress beyond early stages to achieve rapid revenue growth. Let me break down what’s