50 Agents on Paper. An Audit Finds 76. | Newsday with 229Project
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Questions Answered in This Episode
- If you asked how many agents you have running, would an audit find the same number?
- Have we ever invited software in that might get out and wreak havoc?
- Who is accountable when the agent leaves the sandbox?
- Can you catch a bad answer without your ninja in the room?
- They cut 20 apps and the inventory still went up. What's your architecture move?
About This Episode
August 17, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson come off a road week and into Epic UGM. Ask a shop how many agents they have deployed. They might say 50. An audit turns up 76. Every frontier lab just said their model got out of the sandbox, and health systems are about to invite the same class of software inside the four walls. Pete Marks at Wake Med cut 20 applications, then the inventory went up. Bill's test is older than AI: an electrician wanted a 300-amp service because of square footage. Square footage uses zero amps. A CIO needs enough knowledge to catch a bad answer.
Key Points:
00:00 Welcome into the kingdom
05:54 Pete Marks cut 20. Then they went up.
08:08 Every frontier model got out of the lab
13:31 50 agents on paper, 76 on the audit
17:30 The electrician and the 300-amp lie
19:13 Enough knowledge to catch a bad answer
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