Agentic AI is all the rage. Here's how it's playing out, among those I know best:

- 7/10 are mucking about and experiencing a "gee wiz, tech is cool" moment
- 2/10 are less productive, stuck with increasingly messy codebases (or making their substacks/social-media-feeds worse by overproducing)
- 1/10 are boosting valuable productivity by an order of magnitude, sometimes in visible ways, but mostly hidden