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Levie (2026-05-03) predicts the total amount of work to implement AI agents in…
Brief
Levie (@levie) argues that enterprise agent adoption will create far more implementation work than expected, driving demand for consultants, agent vendors’ FDEs, and internal agent engineers. He outlines concrete technical tasks (secure data access across decades of legacy systems, access controls, monitoring) and organizational changes (process documentation, workflow redesign, evals), and highlights vertical agents as a major opportunity.
Why it matters
Levie (2026-05-03) predicts the total amount of work to implement AI agents in enterprises will exceed imagination and will create demand for existing/new consulting firms, FDEs from agent vendors, and internal agent-engineering roles.
Key details
- Technical hurdles include securely connecting agents to decades of legacy data (modernization required), implementing access controls/entitlements and scopes, plus monitoring, logging, and security for agent actions.
- Organizational work requires documenting processes in agent-usable form, redesigning workflows for human–agent collaboration (not merely replicating old workflows), creating evals for top end-state processes, and keeping up with rapidly changing best practices and architectures; vertical domain agents are a key opportunity.