It's 2027.
You have just hired your new VP of Subdermal Biomodifications and she has spent the last four years constructing a self-designed, explicit LLM environment, complete with custom agent and rules structure that she has been evolving with tremendous success. She can't wait to bring it into your company so she, and her agentic twin, can continue her work.
I'll pause there.
Questions:
1) How would you deal with the inbound IP conflict?
2) How would this conflict with your internal governance for AI development, LLM ownership, and vendor platform lock-in?
3) How would you handle the attaching of her environment to yours? What would that tether look like and how would you secure it?
4) What would you do when she left to go to another company?
These are just some of the questions Mike, Kevin and I tried to tackle last night on the podcast on the topic of the loss of autonomy in IT Leadership. Looking into the future, even the near-term future, a few things (of many) become clear:
1) Any vendor, either platform or consultancy, trying to sell you an AI vision is going to miss the mark. This is because there is no mark. Save your money, focus inwards on addressing risk and compatibility and search for the answers.
2) There is no roadmap for delineation of "personal" or "portable" xAI vs corporate xAI and it would be nearly impossible to create one with the dynamism in AI development.
3) We may eventually need an AIL (AI Language) that allows for compatibility across xAI engines/xLMs.
4) Sure as shit, you are going to need internal portability governance not only in terms of your vendors but your staff as well.
Listen in to Episode 9, Part 2 of the Calculus of IT podcast where we discussed this stuff. We also took a stab at Quantum computing, the increasing demands on risk management, the future of edge computing, and the vendor relationship evolution. Each with their own separate impacts on autonomy in IT Leadership. Next week, we finish up Episode 9 with Part 3 and we will be spending some quality time on the future of Search, data sovereignty, and the PEOPLE in your organization.

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