been almost a year since i made this tweet and honestly not much has changed
here's the state of ai in today's enterprise world:
- genai POCs are still failing at scale & in large corps
- MCP turned out to be pretty fucking useless
- multiagents have been disappointing. enterprise workflows mostly reward deterministic orchestration, not autonomous stategraphs
- hallucination still remains a core unsolved issue even with the SOTA models
- so does memory. maintaining state over long/cross conversations continues to be a challenge
- larger context windows & more parameters haven't really achieved much compared to the last generation
- tokens are costing more, not less, as models, architectures, and harnesses have progressed
- mid-size CEOs are realizing that replacing engineers with agents isn't the best way forward (agents are costing more than humans)
- non-tech megacorp CEOs still don't know what to do exactly & are implementing stupid KPIs such as measuring copilot usage to push AI adoption
- consultants who are not rebranding themselves as "forward deployed engineers" are having a really hard time
- organic ai adoption is bottom-up and not top-down across corps
- using tools like coderabbit has become imperative in fighting the thousands of lines of AI slop even senior engineers are committing every day
- nobody seems to be writing code anymore
- still doesn't mean code is solved. LLMs are duds on large codebases
some intern at mckinsey is probably slopcoating a report on this but let me give you an insider news: most large corps are not happy with the agentic systems & POCs they’ve done this year. 2025 was supposed to be the year of agents. so far it’s been the year of letdowns.