The real reason enterprise AI is stuck

The reason enterprise AI remains stubbornly artisanal is not because models are too weak. It is not because context windows are too short, or agents need better prompts, or companies are resisting adoption. Those are all visible problems. But they are not the deepest one. The deeper problem is that the industry is still building from metaphors. And metaphors do not industrialize. Over the last two years, enterprise AI has become filled with human analogies. We talk about memory, refl...