Manu Narayan

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Talking AI · Past the Productivity Ceiling: Rebuilding the Enterprise from First Principles · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

But that remaining 20%, as you start to layer in like role-based access control, as you start to think about things like versioning, as you start to think about how do you maintain immutable versus non-immutable records, like the things that are actually like really deep problems, those end up being this really long tail on internal development.

Then I don't think that AI driven software development's gonna fundamentally shift and change that, especially when we think about the

types of workflows and workloads that run on top of some of our key SAS offerings.

Now I think your note around the agent sprawl and proliferation is super real.

And every agent also then wants context to every other system of record and application, right?

So you start to think about all of the kind of challenges around data sovereignty, data governance.

It's a very real challenging problem.

For us internally, our strategy has been to focus on a few, a handful of a few platforms where we really build out agents where we allow our data to reside, but then leverage things.

Things like native MCP connectors or custom built MCP connectors to our SaaS applications so we can bring in that rich context.

I think we'll see that evolve.

I'm not sure if MCP is the be all end all protocol for what we ultimately all need to do.

Your common matter around, okay, are we gonna have like agents, socket agents?

That actually is like really interesting.

I think something that we'll probably see a bit more of like agent to agent communication protocols emerging.

But I don't think that MCP itself is gonna be where we all land in a few years.

It's just like with shadow IT, it's a problem that exists and it happens.

You have both awareness on it and you're constantly combating it.

I think a few things that maybe jump to mind, how we tackle shadow AI isn't really any different than how we've tackled shadow IT in the past, right?

And it's a mix of education, policy, a level of controls that exist with a network and endpoint layer, as well as then, and I think the most critical is having a really happy path to

production for people, right?

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