You Don't Need 100 AI Agents — You Need One That Works

Andrew challenges amaiko on whether AI agent sprawl is really a problem or just vendor marketing FUD — and gets hit with data that changes his mind.

Topics discussed

• Why 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027 (Gartner) — and where the cancellations will concentrate
• The 2000s HR tech fragmentation parallel — SAP, Oracle, IBM acquisitions repeating now with Workday and SAP
• Coordinated multi-agent systems amplify performance 45% — uncoordinated ones amplify errors 17x
• Josh Bersin's four-stage AI evolution model and the self-driving car analogy
• IBM AskHR: 40% cost reduction, 94% containment through integration — not more tools
• The vendor lock-in counterargument: 67% of organizations want to avoid single-provider dependency
• Why MCP and A2A protocols are plumbing, not architecture
• Three questions to ask before buying another AI agent

Full article: amaiko.ai/blog/agent-sprawl

Sources cited: Josh Bersin Company (2026), Gartner, Deloitte, Zapier C-Suite Survey, MIT GenAI Divide Report, IBM AskHR Case Study, Forrester, SearchUnify, Anthropic