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Stop Building AI Features. Start Building AI Systems.
You added AI to your product. Congratulations — you built a feature. Now watch it break in production because you never built the system around it.
Feb 24, 2026The Toddfather
AI reality from the trenches. No vendor spin, no hype cycle theater.
You added AI to your product. Congratulations — you built a feature. Now watch it break in production because you never built the system around it.
You built the demo. Leadership loved it. Six months later, it's still 'almost ready.' The gap between prototype and production isn't technology — it's architecture.
Your AI made a decision. An auditor asks why. You have 30 seconds. Can you answer? Most companies can't — and regulators are starting to notice.
AI-native startups now earn $2 for every $1 incumbents make. The moat of complexity is dead. Vibe coding is industrializing. And AI without governance is liability with a demo.
They say 'enterprise-grade AI governance.' They mean a checkbox and a prayer. Here's what real governance looks like — and why most vendors can't deliver it.
Studio builds it. Edge operates it. Summit ships it. Why most AI companies get the handoff wrong — and how the Rally framework fixes the gap between prototype and production.
You gave an LLM a system prompt and called it an agent. It's not. Here's what separates a real AI agent from a glorified autocomplete — and why the distinction matters for enterprise.
GPT-5 won't fix your comp plan. Claude won't understand your SLA. The real AI advantage isn't the model — it's the domain pack feeding it.
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