Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

E975 - Agentic AI Faces a Reckoning as Enterprises Demand Real Business Value

Published: October 2, 2026

Duration: 3:39

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I explore why Gartner expects many agentic AI projects to disappear as enterprises get more serious about measurable business value.

Highlights

00:14 — We're starting to see some interesting analysis coming out of organizations like Gartner. Gartner is saying that 40% of agentic AI projects die by 2027. There are a lot of projects that are going on within organizations that don't actually have good business value or good return on investment.

00:52 — And we already started to see a lot of pilots that were just failing over and over and over because peop...