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In short Jack of all trades, master of none: that hire has never delivered Architecture gets decided the moment the org chart and job descriptions are written In the age of AI, the mistake costs more: the real scarcity isn’t model mastery, it’s knowledge of the business being assisted ⎙ Imprimer / Télécharger en PDF Cloud architect. AI architect. DevOps architect. Integration architect. Tomorrow, no doubt, agentic architect. Every technology wave demands its own totem, and the organization complies — a role, a job description, a line in the org chart. ...

Yes, VivaTech was ten days ago. No, I didn’t write in the heat of the moment. Everyone else did. The LinkedIn posts went up on Thursday evening — rocket emojis, selfies with robots, “game changer,” “mind blown,” and the traditional blurry photo of a screen displaying something impressive. I chose not to do that. Not out of snobbery. Out of intellectual honesty. Because a show like VivaTech is designed to dazzle you. That’s its function. It’s even its virtue — it makes visible what is still invisible in most organizations. But between what you see and what it means, there is work to be done. Work of distillation, of putting things in tension, of connecting what you observe with what you see elsewhere, in the organizations you support. ...