Why Most Agentic AI Projects Never Leave the Pilot Phase – Temporal Ep 2

Many organizations are experimenting with agentic AI and seeing strong results in pilot environments, but only a small number of these initiatives progress into stable production systems.

In Episode 2 of Temporal’s Techstrong TV series, Workflow Orchestration, Evolved, the panel examines why execution, rather than model quality alone, is often the real constraint. The discussion covers long running workflows, state loss, retries, coordination across multiple services, failure recovery, and cost control, and highlights the need for an execution layer that can manage this complexity reliably over time.