I’ve been playing a lot of Dungeons & Dragons again for the first time in 30 years. Not with humans, but with AIs, and I’ve mostly used ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Surprisingly, playing D&D with the AIs turned out to be the perfect way to understand what agentic AI actually is and how it might work in real-world enterprise software.
Enterprise systems are complex. So is D&D. You’ve got character creation, endless spell lists, NPC (nonplayer character) logic, encounter rules — it’s a tangle of workflows and state transitions that…