Meta's own telemetry showed its agents producing far more internal churn than shipped features, plus more incidents to clean up. That is the strongest evidence yet that agent programmes do not cash out as headcount.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption64
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives68
- Confidence61
A survey of 1,800 professionals finds 91% saying their firm still falls short on AI. The remedy its chief operations officer names is fewer tools with owners attached, plus a date on which a failed pilot dies.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption48
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives68
- Confidence45
Reuters says Project OT scoped some teams for cuts of up to 60 percent. Meta's internal data showed code changes up 220 percent and features reaching users up 36.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption33
- Hype gap+41
- Incentives61
- Confidence46
Careerminds research says three-quarters of organizations lost money on AI-attributed job cuts. That moves AI out of the payroll-offset column and into the capability budget.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives68
- Confidence34
Peter Bendor-Samuel now argues AI is splitting enterprise technology into two markets rather than collapsing one. If he is right, vendor and services budgets bifurcate instead of shrinking.
Reality
- Evidence20
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence30