Ep#249 How leaders need to rethink their approach to AI altogether

About this episode

Jon Myer discusses with AI experts Christopher and Diego the misconceptions around AI implementation and the factors that contribute to project success or failure.

Everyone is asking "can AI do this?" But that's the wrong question. The right questions are: does it have the right knowledge, the right tools, and clear enough instructions to do the job? And is your enterprise actually ready for what comes after?In this episode, Jon Myer is joined by Christopher and Diego from Epi-use — two experts in AI architecture, governance, and enterprise implementation — for a frank conversation about why so many agentic AI projects fail, what the successful ones have in common, and why the real bottleneck is almost never the AI itself.Topics covered:Why most companies are implementing AI for the wrong reasons and asking the wrong questionsThe difference between generative AI and agentic AI — vending machine vs. sous chefPilot purgatory — why AI projects get stuck and never make it to productionWhy the AI part is usually the easiest part and the foundation is the heavy liftHow governance becomes the enabler not the obstacle when done rightThe difference between human in the loop and human on the loop — and why it matters for designA real-world case study — a bank that ran 350 agentic AI use cases and what actually workedDo we want true autonomy…

People in this episode

Host: Jon Myer

Guests: Christopher, Diego

Topics covered

• AI implementation
• agentic AI
• AI governance
• enterprise readiness
• AI project failures
• human in the loop
• case study

Keywords

• AI
• agentic AI
• governance
• enterprise
• implementation
• pilot purgatory
• autonomy
• accountability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Epi-use

More episodes of Jon Myer Podcast

• Ep#250 AI Accountability and Open Source with JD from Command Prompt · June 4, 2026 · 27 min
• HIMSS26 Ep#6 Technology Is Not a Governance Problem It Is a People Problem · April 27, 2026 · 24 min
• Ingram Micro Ep#13 Why Being Behind on Health IT Might Be Rural Health's Biggest Advantage · April 20, 2026 · 20 min
• Ep#12 Why Healthcare Data Migrations Get Stuck and How to Actually Finish One · April 10, 2026 · 11 min
• Ingram Micro Ep#11 How a Major Health System Is Actually Delivering on the Promise of AI · April 9, 2026 · 25 min
• Ingram Micro HIMSS Ep#10 Why One Unpatched Device Is All It Takes to Bring Down a Hospital · April 7, 2026 · 11 min