# Why AI Won't Fix Organizational Fiefdoms Without Addressing Their Causes

DevFeed: [Why AI Won't Fix Organizational Fiefdoms Without Addressing Their Causes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ai-won-t-save-the-kingdoms-we-built-40049.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/ai-wont-save-the-kingdoms-we-built>)

Author: John Cutler

Published: 2026-05-23T16:42:55Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Beautiful Mess](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-beautiful-mess.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [complexity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/complexity.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>)

## AI overview

The post argues that AI will not save organizational fiefdoms unless leaders confront the reasons those structures were created. It examines assumptions about autonomy, accountability, complexity, and organizational scale.

## Source excerpt

This post is about the people who built the fiefdoms now looking to AI to save them from the fiefdoms, and why that will only work if we are honest about what those fiefdoms were built to avoid in the first place.