Practitioner: Huge Gap Between AI Hype and Real-World Agent Deployment
annbordetsky · x · 2026-09-14
Ann Bordetsky, who teaches AI at Berkeley, notes a "WILD" delta between hyperbolic AI discourse and the practical reality of deploying agentic systems at meaningful scale in real-world situations — it's still very early. The winning AI company right now, she argues, is the one obsessively focused on customer needs.
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