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Agents, Finally, Ship
The agent wave was supposed to arrive in 2024. It arrived this spring instead — and it doesn't look like the demos.
By The Memo · Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · 9 min read
Two years ago, agent demos went viral every other week. None of them shipped. The autonomous browser-using, ticket-resolving, code-merging future stayed permanently six months away. So when the agents that actually work started landing this quarter, almost nobody noticed.
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