Enterprises with AI context layers report agent failures at more than twice the rate of those without one
THE SO WHAT
Context layers aren't making agents worse—they're making failures observable, with 68% of enterprises now tracing bad answers back to specific context issues. Treat this as an argument for instrumentation: if you can't attribute failures, you can't safely scale agents past toy use cases.
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