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Radar · 2025-06-25

Gartner: over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027

Gartner estimates that over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 because of cost, unclear value or weak risk controls. The signal is not that agents are dead. It is that unmanaged PoCs are entering the bill, governance and accountability wall.

Glossary

Async agents — work that does not live in chat

An agent that takes a task, runs outside the conversation, and returns a finished artifact. Powerful for long workflows, dangerous without state, limits and review.

Glossary

Tool use — when a model calls tools

Tool use is the moment an LLM stops merely answering and starts calling APIs, running commands, reading files or touching databases. Useful, sharp and dangerous.