96% of enterprise IT leaders plan to execute and expand their use of AI agents over the next 12 months. But how do you move from isolated experiments to organization-wide adoption without embarrassing yourself? Paul Nashawaty sits down with James Evans, Head of AI at Amplitude, to explore how companies are operationalizing AI agents in real workflows, building trust across teams, and navigating the "AI will kill SaaS" narrative. What You'll Learn: • Why Amplitude went all-in on AI agents (and the two criteria that drove the decision) • The 95% rule: How agents push value instead of requiring time in software • Why human-in-the-loop beats full autonomy for enterprise trust • The three markets where AI is actually creating extreme value today • Evals: The new table stakes skill for product teams building with AI • Why anomaly detection is the pre-AI template for agent trust-building • Search vs. Browse: Why not all user interfaces will disappear Key Insight: "Customers are willing to give you slack if your first thing isn't super baked. They understand these solutions are evolving at the base rate of foundation models." — James, Amplitude The Reality Check: Only three markets are seeing extreme AI value today: customer support, coding assistance, and emerging vibe coding/prototyping. Everything else is still experimentation. Critical Stats: • 25% of IT budgets now allocated to AI initiatives • 24% of organizations want to release code hourly (impossible without AI/automation) • 10x more interest in Amplitude's AI research preview vs. traditional beta products 🎧 Listen to more episodes 📊 Learn about Amplitude Agents: 🔔 Subscribe for weekly AppDev insights #AIAgents #EnterpriseAI #Amplitude #SaaS #AppDev #DigitalAnalytics #ProductDevelopment #AIOperationalization