Nufar Gaspar

and to give you the sense that you are not behind.

The best time to start be agent ready was a while ago, but I want to give you compassion saying that the second best is today.

And I want to encourage you to do all of the things that we just talked about.

And of course, next time we'll talk about the other element of agent readiness, and that is tech and data readiness.

Yes, I want to say yes and because I'm working with a very large company where there is a misalignment between top leadership and also middle leadership.

And that's also a huge pain point because we're seeing like the first line and midline managers, they're stuck between a rock and a hard place because senior management are talking to them like board and management are talking about leadership.

efficiencies and cost reductions and very, very bullish on AI and how fast they expect to see results, where their employees or their engineers are saying, I'm not seeing the value as promised.

I'm under a lot of pressure regardless of AI.

And now you're telling me that I need to do something with AI that I'm still not seeing the value.

And then these managers are kind of saying, I don't know what to do.

You're not giving me enough tools.

You're giving me...

bunch of expectations and the employees are applying pressure.

By the way, from multiple directions, some employees will say, we want to get so much more time to build and play with AI.

And that's perhaps not according to company policies that lets everyone build.

We'll talk about it perhaps in the next session.

But that too is a big misalignment that needs to be resolved.

And I don't have a bulletproof solution for that.

It's still a big issue in my opinion.

All right.