The Data Layer Is Where AI Goes to Die I’ve been inside the guts of a multi-billion company many a times in the past few years. Here’s what I can tell you with absolute certainty: your AI strategy is already dead and you don’t know it yet. Not because of the model. Not because of the GPUs. Not because you picked the wrong vendor. Because your data doesn’t mean anything. ...
AI Hallucinations Most enterprise “hallucination” issues I’m diagnosing aren’t model problems. They’re data architecture problems wearing a GenAI mask. Here’s what that looks like in production: LLM on top RAG in the middle Chaos underneath And “chaos” isn’t abstract. It’s specific: Your customer master has three conflicting birthdate fields across CRM, billing, and the data lake — and your RAG pipeline is embedding all three because reconciliation isn’t enforced upstream. ...