What 25 Trillion Tokens Reveal About How Developers Actually Adopt AI Agents



Posted on Thu Oct 15 2026 | 4:30 pm


Brendan O'Leary discusses how real-world AI adoption depends on building trust rather than chasing model benchmarks. Drawing from 40 trillion tokens of usage data, he explains the four rungs of the AI adoption ladder and analyzes key failure points in context construction, multi-model routing, and feedback loops to help engineering leaders successfully scale agentic workflows.




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