๐ช๐ต๐ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ต๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ปโ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐.
The Snowflake and OpenAI news this week marks the end of "Experimental AI." We are officially in the era of the ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ.
But here is the hard truth most vendors won't tell you: ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ป ๐ฎ $๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ $๐ญ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฒ๐: In my doctoral research, Iโve tracked the ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ผ-๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ, the distance between what a system can do and what an organization is actually prepared for. Most companies are trying to bridge this gap with "glue code" and prompts. But research shows that ๐๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ is not the enemy of autonomy; it is the prerequisite.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฒ๐: When I led data modernization projects, the biggest risk wasn't the AI's "intelligence." It was the ๐๐บ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฐ ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐๐๐ problem. LLMs don't know your private enterprise state.
During my tenure, we realized that success isn't about the model; itโs about the ๐๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ:
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ง๐ถ๐ฝ: The chat interface everyone sees.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ: The Semantic Layer (dbt/Cube) that defines your metrics.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ: The Control Plane (Snowflake/Databricks/etc) with clean, 3NF schemas.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐: Stop building dashboards for humans to interpret. Start building ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐-๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ for machines to act upon.
I've concluded my interim mandate at UTMB and am now helping organizations architect this foundation for the 2026 data landscape.
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Originally published on LinkedIn
