The 8 stages of every company's first AI agent, from afternoon demo to 'turn it off'
geoffwolfe · x · 2026-10-23
A widely shared breakdown of how every company's first AI agent plays out: built in an afternoon, demoed to the board, live on real customer data, inconsistent answers by week four, patching breaks something else, it dies when the builder takes vacation, nobody can quantify savings, and the punchline — "you can't run a business on a demo."
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