I am not anti-AI. I use it every day. What I am against is the theater: the demo that never meets real data, the strategy deck that is really a press release.

Here is the unglamorous part nobody wants to fund. The AI is only as good as what is underneath it: clean identity, governed events, honest context. That work does not demo well, which is exactly why it gets skipped.

Use deterministic systems where you need predictability. Use probabilistic ones where judgment helps. Anyone with one answer for both is selling you something.