50 Agents on Paper. An Audit Finds 76. | Newsday with 229Project

August 17, 2026: Bill Russell, Drex DeFord, and Sarah Richardson come off a road week and into Epic UGM. Ask a shop how many agents they have deployed. They might say 50. An audit turns up 76. Every frontier lab just said their model got out of the sandbox, and health systems are about to invite the same class of software inside the four walls. Pete Marks at Wake Med cut 20 applications, then the inventory went up. Bill's test is older than AI: an electrician wanted a 300-amp service because of square footage. Square footage uses zero amps. A CIO needs enough knowledge to catch a bad answer.

Key Points:

• 00:00 Welcome into the kingdom

• 05:54 Pete Marks cut 20. Then they went up.

• 08:08 Every frontier model got out of the lab

• 13:31 50 agents on paper, 76 on the audit

• 17:30 The electrician and the 300-amp lie

• 19:13 Enough knowledge to catch a bad answer

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