Do Marketers Need To Be Writing for AI? - SEO for AI model training. Yup, better start doing that. The good news is, all those SEO-trap pages that you generated (those long one you never actually show to users/customers) would probably work here…are working here. But, it’s likely a good idea to start doing more of this ongoing.
Context-switching is the main productivity killer for developers - #1 way to improve developer productivity, 30+ years running: stop interrupting them while they’re coding. // ”Research from UC Irvine shows that developers need an average of 23 minutes to rebuild their focus after an interruption fully.”
Emerging GenAI Use Cases and Spotlight on Secure Content Generation - If your AI stuff is using the same pool of knowledge as your competitors, you won’t get much competitive advantage. You need to add your own secret info. // “A common challenge, however, when employees use public generative AI tools or foundation models, is a lack of organizational specificity.”
Stuck in the pilot phase: Enterprises grapple with generative AI ROI - ”More than 90% of leaders expressed concern about generative AI pilots proceeding without addressing problems uncovered by previous initiatives, according to the Informatica report. Nearly 3 in 5 respondents admitted to facing pressure to move projects along faster. ”
Moderne raises $30M to solve technical debt across complex codebases - ”A quick peek at Moderne’s customer base is telling of who is most likely to benefit from its technology — companies like Walmart and insurance giant Allstate. Its investor base includes names from the enterprise world such as American Express and Morgan Stanley, which, while unconfirmed, is safe to assume have invested strategically.” // From what I’ve seen and heard, seems like good stuff.
Extending AI chat with Model Context Protocol (and why it matters) - Adding plugins to the AIs, the hope being that wide community of developers will form, extending the functionality of the AIs. I’ve seen this in practice with Spring AI and Claude and is very promising, and easy.
Stuck in the pilot phase: Enterprises grapple with generative AI ROI - “More than 90% of leaders expressed concern about generative AI pilots proceeding without addressing problems uncovered by previous initiatives, according to the Informatica report. Nearly 3 in 5 respondents admitted to facing pressure to move projects along faster."
IT decision makers unconvinced of returns from AI investment - “Nearly half of respondents have yet to adopt AI at all, with 36 percent indicating they plan to start using it within the next 12 months, while a further 13 percent are still at the stage of considering or evaluating it but have no plans yet."
Reflecting on the ROI of marketing efforts I’ve done recently - “Reflecting on the ROI of marketing efforts I’ve done recently: Print isn’t that useful unless it’s with a writer with a voice (e.g., a substack). Audio and video really make an impact. You want to be inside someone’s EarPods. Speaking at trade shows is helpful in expanding your network”