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88% of AI Agent Pilots Fail Due to Infrastructure Gaps, Not Model Limits
A new analysis reveals that 88% of AI agent pilots fail to reach production, primarily due to infrastructure readiness gaps rather than model limitations. Only 11% of enterprises run agents in production, and 15% are fully prepared for deployment. The core issue is the lack of a unified control plane for governance, observability, and multi-runtime orchestration.
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The article correctly shifts blame from AI models to infrastructure, but the 88% figure is a common industry estimate that may conflate pilot failures with broader deployment challenges.
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