Data is not software: company ground truth lives in heads, not a global repo
HanchungLee · x · 2026-10-22
Hanchung Lee boosts gabriel1's point behind the "Data is not software" essay: programmers treat the rest of knowledge work like coding, but there is no global repository of everything that happened at a company — the ground truth is distributed across people's heads, and no one knows who knows what. That structural gap is why AI for enterprise knowledge work is far harder than coding.
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