Rubens designed the major works, established the compositional framework, and reviewed his apprentices' execution. Van Dyck eventually forked the codebase, established his own studio, and surpassed Rubens in the field he chose. Git, the version control system underpinning most of the world's software, formalises exactly this: a master repository, branches, independent lines of work, the ability to merge or to diverge permanently.

Most organisations now have an AI strategy. Very few have asked what it is doing to the planet. That is not an abstract concern. It is a capital allocation question with a measurable environmental consequence attached to it. Boards are declining to ask it. The omission will not age well.