Every AI agent conversation in 2026 eventually collapses into a formula: Agent equals Model plus Harness. Databricks put it plainly in its own engineering research: most operational agent failures trace back to the harness, not the model underneath it. Almost everything written about AI harnesses so far is aimed at developers building one. Almost nothing […]
Accenture and Qlik surveyed 9,000 employees across nine countries and found that data-related friction costs organizations more than five working days, 43 hours, per employee every year, with only 21% of employees confident in their own data skills. Most companies respond to that number by opening access to everything. That is the wrong fix, and […]
Fivetran’s 2026 Data Connectivity Report and dbt Labs’ State of Analytics Engineering 2026 survey, both published in April 2026, landed on the same number from different angles: 53% of enterprise data engineering time now goes to maintaining existing pipelines instead of building new capability. Meanwhile Gartner puts the failure rate for data migration projects at […]
Ask five research firms for the AI adoption rate and you get five different numbers, but the gap that matters is inside a single survey. McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI found 88% of organizations use AI in at least one business function, yet only 6% report significant enterprise-wide impact from it. MIT’s Project NANDA went […]
