AI agents just crossed the line from demo to deployment — and that changes what a CEO has to decide this year. The pilot era is ending; the question shifts from "should we try AI" to "how do we deploy agents to everyone, and who supervises them."

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

• The deployment proof — Samsung is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI's Codex coding agent to every employee in Korea and across its global Device eXperience division. When a 250,000-employee manufacturer goes company-wide, the "are these things real" debate is over.
• Agents doing real work — Cognition's Devin is an autonomous software-engineer agent reportedly doing ~$492M of real engineering work a year. The valuation is the least interesting number; the adoption is the story. The org-design quest ...