FastCompany argues enterprise AI lacks Transformer moment

The author argues that enterprise AI currently suffers from an architectural gap because the industry treats artificial workers and agents as the central organizing unit rather than building persistent, goal-directed organizational systems. While the 2017 Transformer breakthrough successfully enabled task-level capabilities, most companies struggle to translate individual productivity gains into organizational results. The author contends that true enterprise intelligence requires decoupling reasoning from policy, maintaining formal operational states, and establishing deterministic authorization layers rather than simply connecting agents together. Open article →