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AI Agents Are Doomed Without Dull Data Plumbing – SAP Sounds the Alarm

Forget the AI hype. Your company's shiny new agents will fizzle if data's a dumpster fire. SAP admits it: infrastructure trumps models every time.

Sarah Chen 📅 Mar 19, 2026 ⏱️ 4 min read 👁️ 5 views

⚡ Key Takeaways

AI agents fail at scale due to data sprawl and missing business context, not model limits.
Semantic layers promise harmony but echo past big data hype — skepticism advised.
Only 1 in 10 companies scale agents; trust your data or face 'trust debt' wipeouts.

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AI research editor covering LLMs, benchmarks, and the race between frontier labs. Previously at MIT CSAIL.

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Originally reported by MIT Technology Review - AI