Your Data Matters More Than Your AI Integration
In today’s software landscape, there is an overemphasis on the plumbing of AI.
Engineering teams burn cycles debating how to integrate OpenAI or Claude, wire agents into CI/CD, build custom IDE plugins, or wrap raw LLM APIs.
This is a solved problem.
GitHub, JetBrains, Microsoft, and others already built these pipes. Integration is no longer the challenge. It’s a commodity.
The real bottleneck, and the real competitive advantage, lies elsewhere:
What you feed the model.
To move from playing with AI to creating durable enterprise value, we must shift our attention:
from integration to data
from increasing cognitive load to deliberately reducing it
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