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My experience is that real AI adoption on real problems is a complex blend of: domain context on the problem, domain experience with AI tooling, and old-fashioned IT issues. I’m deeply skeptical of any initiative for internal AI adoption that doesn’t anchor on all three of those. This is an advantage of earlier stage companies, because you can often find aspects of all three of those in a single person, or at least across two people. In larger companies, you need three different organizations doing this work together, this is just objectively hard
— Will Larson, Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint
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This quote directly validates Zac's ecosystem approach of using Claude as an orchestrator with specialized agents. The insight about domain context, AI tooling experience, and IT infrastructure aligns perfectly with the ecosystem's design of having targeted agents (rails-expert, test-engineer) who can understand nuanced problem domains like game design, prediction markets, and infrastructure tools. The multi-agent approach solves exactly the challenge Larson describes of finding cross-functional AI adoption capabilities.