The Battle For Grounding Your AI Agents Has Begun - Data gravity considerations for AI.
Proof (again!) of why enterprises need to focus on AI strategic value over cost-cutting - “Forrester believes that a maximum of 1% of core business processes will be orchestrated by generative AI this year. A core issue is trust, since these systems tend to hallucinate, and it’s hard to troubleshoot bias."
The new economics of enterprise technology in an AI world - This is a strange collage of IT project success and failure. I think it’s saying that if your IT projects don’t show legible business improvement. They’re considered a failure. // Also, you have to look at an IT project as a big system, not just one point in time like the developers shipping an app. // “This pattern is clear in AI initiatives, where only 1 percent of company executives describe their gen AI rollouts as “mature”10 and only 10 to 20 percent of isolated AI experiments in the past two years scaled to create value. Our analysis of the impact of FinOps programs reveals that this misalignment of incentives leads to poor spend decisions on enterprise technology and results in a 20 to 30 percent loss of value.” // And commentary on IT projects in general, namely, it’s hard to get perceived ROI on them and stick to original (incorrect) ongoing budget estimates. On the other hand, would the company survive without them? Analogously, what is the ROI on electricity? // Also: “Some 10 to 20 percent of productivity resulting from work-from-home investments benefits employees rather than the enterprise (such as improved working conditions and freed-up time for personal activities).” Employees are better off, but who cares if it doesn’t make the shareholder more money?
The coyote trap. - “Call it whatever you will, I don’t care, but we’re on a new path and companies are doing more than ever to extract every ounce of value out of everyone in the payroll system. I talked to a long time friend and former colleague who went from team leader to division leader overnight. No title change. No additional compensation. Just do more."
The coyote trap. - “Call it whatever you will, I don’t care, but we’re on a new path and companies are doing more than ever to extract every ounce of value out of everyone in the payroll system. I talked to a long time friend and former colleague who went from team leader to division leader overnight. No title change. No additional compensation. Just do more."
Pricing: A List of Tactics - Some mind-tricks to play with pricing.
Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? - Checks out on both sides.
When was peak message in a bottle? - Only 80s kids will get this: “grandfather clocks; suits of armour; quicksand; spontaneous human combustion.” Also: big foot and UFOs.
Anthropic closes $2.5 billion credit facility - “Annualized revenue reached $2 billion in the first quarter, the company confirmed, more than doubling from a $1 billion rate in the prior period. Revenue chief Kate Jensen said in a recent interview with CNBC that the number of customers spending more than $100,000 annually with Anthropic jumped eightfold from a year ago."
Platform Engineering: Evolution or Rebranding? - Get yourself a PaaS. // “the idea of a dedicated team removing frictions by building tools and resuable abstractions is an idea that’s here to stay."