The gap between what agents CAN do and what organizations ALLOW them to do is the defining feature of the current moment. Agents are already capable of far more autonomy than enterprises permit.
The Empirical Evidence (Anthropic February 2026 Data)
Tool chaining: +37% in 4 months (5.2 → 7.1 tools per session)
Session duration: 99.9th percentile runs extending dramatically (~2x since Jan 2025)
Auto-approve rate: Trust scales with experience, not capability
Architecture: 99% single-agent — multi-agent is visible but pre-production
What This Tells Us
Agents need existing software — for now. Claude Code operates through GitHub, Jira, Slack. Agentforce runs on Salesforce’s data layer. The agentic economy is built on top of and through the existing SaaS stack. Disruption AND scaffolding.
The sell-off priced Horizon 3 destruction at Horizon 1 speeds. What you build during the trust-gated phase determines your position when the gates open.
Gennaro is the creator of FourWeekMBA, which reached about four million business people, comprising C-level executives, investors, analysts, product managers, and aspiring digital entrepreneurs in 2022 alone | He is also Director of Sales for a high-tech scaleup in the AI Industry | In 2012, Gennaro earned an International MBA with emphasis on Corporate Finance and Business Strategy.
