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The one who tribalized every issue found a ready-made community that validated every prior. Etc, etc. The incentive gradient was clear: sanity was expensive, and extremism paid dividends."
Now, enterprises need to find the AI apps.
The top use cases for AI agent pilots for marketing technology leaders are content or marketing asset production, cited by 52% of leaders piloting these tools. Other top use cases include content and marketing asset enrichment (49%) and campaign management/optimization (43%).
Meatsack context engineering to defuse tense conversations
In a tense situation, take a moment to say out loud your opponents position, feeling, and perspective. This is like setting up context and prompting for an AI. You put that in the context window and it flavors the ongoing conversation. It’d probably do interesting stuff in AI chats. Those chats are so explicit and non-confrontational that these dynamics probably already happen.
🔗 How to Fix Breakdowns in Communication
The charts say things are OK
It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was plundered by immigrants and trade.
🔗 One-Third of US Families Earn Over $150,000
Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals.
Yes:
Kubernetes started as a way to orchestrate containers, but its true innovation lies in its API model. The declarative resource pattern, with its desired state, actual state and continuous reconciliation, has proven to be a universal abstraction. It works for workloads, infrastructure, policies and more. That universality is why Kubernetes has become the foundation for IDPs. It provides a consistent way to define, extend and enforce platform building blocks.
The ultimate bike-shedding story, and, always make your own slides
The iterative design process for the Mac calculator app highlights the challenges of executive feedback and suggests that executives should use AI to better articulate their visions.
AI uses at banks, private AI and customer built AI apps - skills and regulations are the friction for wider adoption
The most common use case for agentic AI is customer service, according to 75% of banks surveyed by Capgemini. Nearly two-thirds use the technology for fraud detection, while 3 in 5 use it for loan processing and customer onboarding.
Also, 84% of apps/uses are built in house:
BNY developed its AI agents in-house, which one-third of banks also reported doing in the Capgemini report. Only 16% reported buying AI agents off-the-shelf.