The failure was not the idea of AI in BI, but the failure to assume that a generic agent could understand the entire enterprise.
The Hard Truth: A Single AI Agent Can’t Understand the Business
A common misconception I often hear is: “Why can’t a single AI agent understand sales, pricing, distribution, scheduling, inventory, financials, etc.? ? »
Yet that’s exactly what generic co-pilots attempt: a single agent. A prompt. A pop-up window. A brain. From a technical point of view, this approach faces a serious technical bottleneck: the popup size. Overloading a single agent with the vast and conflicting constraints of an entire enterprise leads to context stuffing, where essential details are buried and statistically ignored, a limitation well-documented in recent AI research.