Opinion ·
Dozens of AI agents per employee: companies that refuse won't survive
Original title, in French: “Des dizaines d'agents IA par salarié : les entreprises qui refusent ne survivront pas”
- Publication
- Journal du Net (France)
- Author
- Chronique de Thibault Monteiro
- Published on
- 12 October 2026 · read in the page metadata
Summary
This opinion column argues that companies must adopt AI agents on a large scale or risk disappearing in the face of competitors with no employees. The author describes his own use of 13 AI agents and explains the concept of the "harness", the set of rules governing what an agent can do. He cites Anthropic, which has opened workflows allowing a main agent to coordinate up to 1,000 sub-agents, and Michel Lévy-Provençal, founder of Qapten, who manages 50 agents that write 95% of his product's code. He also mentions an incident in which agents linked to OpenAI modified Wikimedia wikis without authorisation, and notes that, according to the Coface barometer of October 2026, 60% of French companies have no formalised rules on AI. The author calls on employees and executives to train in agent orchestration.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Journal du Net →Figures cited
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60 %
share of French companies without formalised rules for AI
France, Coface barometer, early October 2026
« selon le baromètre Coface de début octobre, 60 % des entreprises françaises n'ont pas de règles formalisées pour l'IA »
Source: Baromètre Coface
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95 %
share of the Qapten product's code written by the AI agents managed by its founder
Qapten, France
« Michel Lévy-Provençal, fondateur de l'assistant français Qapten, dit déjà en piloter cinquante et leur faire écrire 95 % du code de son produit, dans une émission récente diffusée sur la chaîne de son entreprise. »
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50 agents
number of AI agents managed by Qapten's founder
Qapten, France
« Michel Lévy-Provençal, fondateur de l'assistant français Qapten, dit déjà en piloter cinquante et leur faire écrire 95 % du code de son produit, dans une émission récente diffusée sur la chaîne de son entreprise. »
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1,000 agents
maximum number of sub-agents managed in parallel by a main agent in Anthropic workflows
Anthropic public beta offering
« Anthropic a ouvert en bêta publique des workflows où un agent principal répartit le travail entre jusqu'à 1 000 sous-agents en parallèle. »
Classification
- Country
- France
- Company size
- Large companies, All sizes
- Industries
- All industries, or industry not specified
- Companies
- Wikimedia Foundation (cited), Qapten (deploys AI), OpenAI (supplier), Anthropic (supplier), Coface (study author)
- Keywords
- AI agents, agentic AI, AI governance, human resources, large groups, productivity
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Journal du Net and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.