Arriving At 'Hello World' In Enterprise AI
InfoWorld, Monday, July 7th, 2025
Enterprises move slowly and are looking for solid value, not flashy demos. Increase developer adoption and they'll create a bottom-up wave of momentum.
Brendan Falk didn't set out to become a cautionary tale. Three months after leaving AWS to build what he called an 'AI-native Palantir,' he's pivoting away from enterprise AI projects altogether. In a widely shared X thread, Falk offers some of the reasons: 18-month sales cycles, labyrinthine integrations, and post-sale maintenance that swallows margins.
In other words, all the assembly required to make AI work in the enterprise, regardless of the pseudo instant gratification that consumer-level ChatGPT prompts may return.