A practical split between AI slide-deck claims and what actually ships — agents need gates, demos are curated, and value shows up in specific workflows.
The Hype
✗ “AGI next year — fire half the team”
The Reality
Powerful assistants — humans still own risk
Where To Put Your Bets
Golden datasets + release gates
Demos Are Curated
Happy paths hide latency, cost, and the long tail of weird inputs.