Author: Coté
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Gemini has a billion users now
Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. … Alphabet Inc. put the app at 650 million monthly users last October and 750 million by February. Pichai cited 900 million on stage at Google I/O in June,…
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Six to eight weeks, down to two days – How Tanzu Product Management Uses AI
I talked with Chris McClanahan and Purnima Padmanabhan about how the Tanzu product management team actually put AI to work. Ideation went from six to eight weeks to a couple of days, and almost none of what got them there was tooling. It was org chart work: one pod instead of hand-offs, onboarding the AI…
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A totally custom, one-off D&D battle map, made by ChatGPT and prompted by Claude
Here’s another, totally custom and one-off battle-map AI made for me: This was just a random encounter in a D&D adventure I was doing with solo role-playing with AI (Claude). I asked it to generate a prompt to give to ChatGPT to generate the battle-map, and the results were amazing. Here’s the prompt that generated…
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AI ends up like spreadsheets – Software Defined Talk #124 with Bryan Ross
I’m old enough to remember how much time and agony we spent explaining to managers the importance of context switching for developers, and how they should have meeting free Fridays… And now the same people that we’re trying to help are bragging about how distracted they are. Bryan Ross, SDI #124. Check out this week’s…
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What’s up with these AI jailbreaks and security breaches?
Check the rest of our conversation on last week’s Tanzu Catsup.
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AI makes people more productive, not organizations – Elusive Enterprise AI ROI
For enterprises to get the most out of their AI investments, they should think about going deep with their AI deployments, not wide, Ashraf said. Instead of applying AI across every process in an organization, find the few instances where automating workflows with an agentic system could make the most impact. And: While 78% of…
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sell on story, or sell on revenue
If you’re an entrepreneur in the venture game, you should internalize this. You either get sold for a strategic multiple (that would be Airtable at $11.7B), or you get sold for a multiple of revenue (2-5x, likely driven by your ability to turn a profit), or you reach public markets and hopefully a self sustaining…
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when exporting your data is difficult
The client could copy the database, but the database structure was so complex, they couldn’t make sense of it, and had been working for ten months with limited progress. My colleague’s idea was to use an AI to build JavaScript scripts that scraped the UI. Since the data was presented from the UI, it was…
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AI layoffs get mixed results
[Forrester’s] survey of leaders found 55 percent of employers regret having made tech-driven staff cuts—leading its analysts to predict ‘half of AI-attributed layoffs [will] be quietly reversed.’” And: ‘Staffing company Robert Half has estimated that a third of hiring executives who said they’d eliminated roles due to AI automation had rehired those employees or recruited…
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There is no organizational-level ROI for AI, just IC ROI
The best theory of elusive enterprise AI ROI yet: AI makes workers more productive, not organization: “How can you reconcile the failure of AI in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that AI is helping them do great work?” The answer is that these AI users are “centaurs” — experienced…
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labeled AI
This applies to generated images, audio and text, as long as they were designed to look real. This content will get slapped with a digital watermark. The rules do not apply to personal content, so custom group chat jokes are still safe. Also, there’s an exemption for “evidently artistic” satirical and fictional works. Meanwhile, AI…
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Relative to your interests, Friday
Metric Theater in AI ROI dashboards, Visa collapsing ten-person dev teams, AT&T burning a trillion tokens a month, and COBOL still running 95% of ATM transactions. Plus Kubernetes won the argument and promptly became the problem.
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mainframes still run money
COBOL remains a widely-used but aging programming language that works across mainframe computers and legacy operating systems, supporting more than 40% of online banking systems, 80% of in-person credit card transactions and 95% of ATM transactions, according to mainframe provider IBM. 🔗 AI shifts mainframe modernization strategy
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Reorganizing the dev teams at Visa to take advantage of AI
When you speed up the SDLC process, you should collapse silo’ed teams into one team to prevent human bottlenecks based on handoffs. Here’s that at Visa: As a result of the unlocks we can realize with this new tooling, we are re-forming our product development teams that used to be 10 or more into smaller…
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more marketing context, more better AI for marketing
AI just makes good things gooder, and bad things badder: The real work starts before evaluating tools or issuing an RFP. Marketers need defined personas, clear messaging frameworks, content standards, governance processes, reusable content, and alignment on measuring success. AI performs only as well as the context it’s given. Organizations that establish the richest context,…
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How to make better enterprise AI ROI metrics and dashboards
Encode what you should next in AI ROI metrics, don’t leave the decision up to post-metrics vibes. Make the decision before making the metrics. Translate the decision into language that people use before packaging it up into quantifiable metrics. For example, ‘Should we scale this AI feature from 10% to 100%?’ or ‘Should we fund…
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AI moral panic
AI amplifies your current state, moral panic edition: Perhaps intuitively and certainly as framed by popular narratives, AICs aggravate precisely these existential nerves. They simulate social processes that sustain us as a species with all our intimate bonds. And yes, that such bonds could be reproduced, even superficially, by non-conscious systems feels deeply transgressive to…
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New spec maks MCP more enterprise-y, scalable, and otherwise performant
The biggest change in today’s update is an overhaul of how MCP processes request metadata. Previously, AI applications sent metadata via a relatively complex workflow called a handshake. The new MCP release removes the workflow, which has several benefits. One is that it makes it easier to scale MCP applications in response to traffic spikes.…
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