You Still Need the Band
By Clyde Seepersad, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Education, Linux Foundation
Linux Foundation’s Clyde Seepersad offers commentary on how AI may be the lead singer, but you still need the band. This article originally appeared in Insight Jam, an enterprise IT community that enables human conversation on AI.
Watching the sentiment and interest around AI feels to me like watching Bono strut his stuff. It’s the bona fide star of the show, and everybody wants a piece. What often gets lost in the mosh pit is that (like The Edge, Adam, and Larry) there’s a supporting crew that much more quietly makes the spectacle happen. Behind every large language model, code writing tool, and AI agent sits a stack of foundational technologies that make the magic happen, for example:
- Cloud capacity and orchestration
- Open source frameworks
- Security components
- Deployment tools
Organizations that recognize and invest in these dependencies don’t just move faster; they innovate more reliably and sustainably. Those who focus solely on finding the best “AI talent” while neglecting the supporting band members are likely to find that they don’t get the show they are hoping for. While it is compelling to follow the performance leaderboards for foundational models, the models don’t implement, scale, and secure themselves.
