2023: Everyone bought AI.
Almost no one changed the work.
For the last three years, most people used AI
↳ To draft faster.
↳ To summarize documents.
↳ To automate repeatable tasks.
They said people are still needed for decisions on the bubble.
Those that required seeing across systems.
Edge cases that needed judgment.
Across BCG, Deloitte, McKinsey and Anthropic, a pattern is emerging.
Automation is not enough.
Not anymore. Agentic AI changes the map.
In most companies, it takes a custom IT project to make 17 different systems talk.