Familiarity is the enemy
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A founder argues that enterprise knowledge management has failed for sixty years because buyers select on familiarity rather than correctness. Drawing on examples from SharePoint, HP-Autonomy, expert systems, RAG architectures, and Nubank's unconventional tech stack, the author contends that the 'add AI to your wiki' trend repeats the same category error. The essay proposes a third option: using LLMs with a deterministic harness to auto-generate structured knowledge graphs from unstructured content, eliminating the need for manual encoding. The author also describes their own product built on Clojure, Datomic, and graph-native architecture as an embodiment of these anti-familiarity principles, and offers four diagnostic tests to evaluate whether an existing knowledge stack is built on familiarity or correctness.
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The enemy, namedFive ways familiarity kills enterprise intelligenceThe sixty-year graveyardThe two-option trapWhat unfamiliar looks likeThe architecture the category requiresFour tests for your current stackThe closeSort: