Exclusive | ‘Think like a chess player,’ says Pegasystems CEO on need for smarter AI Agent design

The present-day discourse surrounding Agentic AI may well be an example of a “hype cycle getting ahead of reality”, according to American billionaire and US software major Pegasystems’ founder and CEO Alan Trefler. The tech boss added that the process of giving an AI agent a prompt, expecting it to do the bulk of the reasoning and execution must be re-assessed.

“The problem with people involved in agentic AI giving an agent and prompt, some guidance and trying to turn the reasoning an execution over to the agent is that for most business scenarios…