Author(s): Satish Kumar

Originally published on Towards AI.

1. Enterprise AI Reality Check

Here is the uncomfortable truth about enterprise GenAI in 2026: most implementations are unmaintainable — and most teams do not know it yet.

Prompts live in Jupyter notebooks. Evaluation means a developer squinting at model outputs and nodding. There is no governance layer. No versioning. No rollback capability. And when prompt drift silently degrades a classification model from 94% to 71% accuracy over six weeks, nobody notices until a compliance audit surfaces the gap.