- Published on July 31, 2025
- In AI Features
If Present AI Agents Were Employees, They’d Be Fired in a Day
Are AI agents truly autonomous or just glorified bots in a blazer? Everyone’s building them, but do they actually work?
Image by Nalini Nirad
- By C P Balasubramanyam
AI agents are running a riot across Indian IT firms. From 150 to 200, and even over 300 AI agents are being deployed by companies, embedding them across sectors to automate workflows and decisions.
Startups are just as active. Tracxn tracks dozens of Agentic AI players in India. A Deloitte report says 80% of Indian enterprises are exploring agentic AI, with nearly half focusing on multi-agent collaboration for complex tasks.
Demand is real and supply is racing to meet it. But the real question is: Who’s building thinking systems, and who’s just dressing up scripts in AI buzzwords?
Not All is Rosy
There are a lot of pilots happening on agentic AI, according to a senior executive at an IT giant. However, the biggest hurdle remains accuracy of a model.
“That demands two i
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C P Balasubramanyam
Bala is a journalist covering Indian tech companies and startups from Bengaluru.
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