AI Magazine August 2026 Issue 48 | Page 52

TECHNOLOGY
some of the most demanding industries in the world. We already understand how the work gets done. Not how it looks in a process diagram. How it really gets done. So I left an amazing job at an amazing time because I think this is where the real value gets created. That’ s not crazy to me. That’ s the bet.
Q. WHAT DOES THE ENTERPRISE AI LANDSCAPE ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE RIGHT NOW, FROM WHERE YOU SIT?

» It’ s not that people haven’ t tried. Most enterprises have run the experiments, stood up the pilots, formed the committees. But when it comes to actually scaling, they’ re like a deer in headlights.

Technology is advancing faster than even the top engineers in the world can fully keep pace with, and that’ s not an exaggeration. The pace of development is relentless. For enterprise clients, it’ s arriving as a wall of noise, too fast, too much, coming at an overwhelming rate, and most organisations don’ t have a clear way to separate what’ s real from what’ s hype.
And there are real hurdles stacked on top of that noise. The first is the CFO. The investment has to clear a hard return threshold, and right now the ROI isn’ t delivering anywhere near the 10x that would justify the disruption. The second is the sheer difficulty of change: getting the data ready, locking down security
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