
Enterprise boardrooms pour billions into generative AI pilots destined to fail before deployment. C-suite leaders routinely blame model hallucinations or vendor shortcomings, yet the wreckage stems from a foundational engineering mismatch. Large language models operate probabilistically, while enterprise data stacks demand deterministic precision. Shoving probabilistic models directly onto uncurated databases produces expensive illusions, not enterprise value. Former McKinsey transformation leader Zac Choi captured the impending shift: autonomous software agents, not human analysts, now become the primary consumers of enterprise data estates. Legacy infrastructure assumed predictable SQL queries written by trained operators. When probabilistic agents ingest fragmented, disorganized legacy tables, they guess wildly instead of executing reliable workflows. Neglecting data hygiene before agent deployment triggers immediate operational crises: Catastrophic algorithmic drift...








