Ep. 27 - The Agent Takes It All

Ep. 27 - The Agent Takes It All

From In the Long Run by Joao Dias Ferreira, Marie Bemler, Jim Tolman

May 2, 2026 · 39 min · Season 1 · Episode 27

About this episode

The episode discusses the evolution of Agentic AI and its implications for enterprise readiness and task automation.

Agentic AI is moving from clever chat to real work. In this episode, Jim and João discuss GPT Image 2.0, Codex, GPT-5.5, agents in ChatGPT, and why these tools matter beyond software development. They explore how agents plan, use tools, browse, test, create, and iterate across tasks: from financial reports to Sudoku scraping. The bigger question is enterprise readiness. Large companies must now solve identity, access, data classification, governance, logging, auditing, interoperability, and security for agents working across systems, suppliers, and teams.

People in this episode

Hosts: Jim Tolman, João Dias Ferreira

Topics covered

  • Agentic AI
  • GPT technologies
  • Enterprise readiness
  • AI tools
  • Data governance
  • Task automation

Keywords

  • Agentic AI
  • GPT Image 2.0
  • Codex
  • GPT-5.5
  • enterprise readiness
  • data classification
  • security
  • task automation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ChatGPT

Products: GPT Image 2.0, Codex, GPT-5.5

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