American humorist Mark Twain once said, “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” Today we worry this phenomenon is playing out with enterprise adoption of generative AI. On their digital transformation journeys over the last decade, many enterprises spent time mired in “pilot purgatory,” taking as long as years to move from concept to executing on use cases. Generative AI (genAI) arrived on the scene with use cases such as “support chatbots” or “talk to your documentation apps” that were so obviously useful that many companies are well on their way to taking them into productio…