Nitski: Enterprise AI agent deployment talent will take a decade
Osvald Nitski · Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs · Jul 25, 2026 · at 19:54
Osvald Nitski, Chief Product Officer at Mercor, explains why enterprise companies currently rely on external deployment services rather than internal hiring.
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“I think that it's a knowledge dissemination problem, so I think the, that, that's one way to look at it. The other way is, why not hire someone to just do this agent deployment at your own company? And I just don't think the skill is out there yet. I don't think there's enough, I don't think the talent is available for every enterprise to have their own expertise in it at this point in time, but that'll change over the long run. This is, I think, like a, you know, maybe a decade-long change.”
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