Thought 009 · Comic · 1 min · July 31, 2026
The model was broke. AI will accentuate the gap.
On the traditional IT playbook, and what it assumes about the ground it lands on.
The traditional IT playbook deploys something I call “imperialistic innovation”.
Gather requirements, align on a solution, deploy the solution with a rigor of training and change management. Ensure compliance with governance.
The model was broke, AI will accentuate the gap.
The words are mine, written before anything was drawn. The drawing was made with Claude Code (Claude Opus 5), July 2026, as SVG in the site’s palette and type — no photography and no image generation. It took four rejected concepts to get here: a classroom that illustrated the idea instead of arguing it, a two-row diagram that measured the gap but buried the joke, and a contour-map version that was elegant and unreadable unless you know how to read a survey. The test that finally decided it was whether a stranger gets it in five seconds without a caption.