“But after nine months on the market, fewer than 5% of Salesforce’s more than 150,000 customers are paying for Agentforce, according to the company’s disclosures. And more than half of customers that are using Agentforce are still testing it without paying.”
🔗 Marc Benioff Said AI Was Easy. A ‘Crazy’ Team at Salesforce Proved Him Wrong
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Low quality content production is a higher quality of life
‘I think the level of quality that everything has these days, every image, every website, every song, every video also has downsides. It defining the “norm”, the expectation we have from one another has two main issues that keep irritating me.’
🔗 The Professionalism Trap
Google Cloud: $58 billion in new revenue commitments over the next two years
nine out of the top 10 AI labs use Google’s infrastructure. He also says that nearly all generative AI unicorns run on Google Cloud, that 60% of all GenAI startups worldwide have chosen Google as their cloud provider, and that the company has lined up $58 billion in new revenue commitments over the next two years, which represents more than double its current annual run rate.
(1) Clearly, some comms work in action here, to, (2) get the message out there that Google is kind of a big deal.
we can all agree that "workslop" is the word we need
The critique acknowledges the flaws in a HBR study about “workslop” while embracing the term itself.
Feeding the hungry robot with your video content
Doing SEO for the LLMs so that your content can be found.
🔗 AEO for YouTube: How to Get Your Videos Cited by ChatGPT
my “shopping” note keeps me from buying dumb shit all the time - Instead of actually impulse buying, put it on a list to get that dopamine hit. // “for the past year and a half i have been keeping a plain note (it started as an apple note but now i use obsidian) titled “shopping” that i’ve built a habit of opening any time i want something i see online”
[2509.13348] Towards an AI-Augmented Textbook - Adapting/changing textbooks to match learning style. // This is an additive use of AI: you’re not replacing humans, you’re doing more work that they humans couldn’t do.
Enterprise AI Looks Bleak, But Employee AI Looks Bright - I think a take-away is: AI ROI accruing to individuals, not the enterprise as a whole. This must drive executives crazy. Is that some kind of digital Marxist thing?
The Man Calling Bullshit on the AI Boom - “To what end? What happened there? Because we get all these stories about ‘Oh, they fed all the data into the LLM,’ and then what?”'// Plus, a list of previous big tech things that have been utter bullshit.
The intelligence is in the user - The robot is only as good as what you bring to it.