What AI Builders Inside Large Orgs Actually Deal With When They Are Not Developers, Engineers, or Technologists
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The first time an AI prototype I built got dismissed as a ‘bedroom project’, it felt personal. By the third time, I started to see a system. In this post I name the patterns AI builders hit inside large enterprises — provenance attacks, role-legitimacy challenges, capture mechanisms, balkanised AI efforts, and the shape-shifter’s double bind — show that each one is documented in organisational research, and lay out the tactics I have tested for getting past the dismissal hump.