Discounts for VMware and Tanzu software:
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Stack Overflow said 84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in their development process, up from 76% a year earlier. In the AI section, 47.1% of respondents said they use AI tools daily, and another 17.7% use them weekly. Yet developers’ trust has not kept pace. Stack Overflow’s analysis said trust in AI accuracy fell to 29% from 40% in prior years, and “positive favorability” dropped to 60% from 72% year over year.
🔗 Developers Lean on AI More, But Report Growing Doubts About Accuracy, Stack Overflow Survey Says
Nearly 9 in 10 executives plan to increase AI investments in the coming year and 46% said they would do so even if a potential AI bubble were to burst, the report found. More than two-thirds of C-suite respondents used AI tools daily in their work, an eight-percentage point uptick from a similar survey fielded in March.
🔗 Executives shrug off AI bubble concerns, move forward with adoption plans
To have full sovereign IT, you need to build the software from the ground up.
The #1 in a market doesn’t have to give up customer control to Apple:
Walmart doesn’t support Apple Pay because they want to control the customer transaction directly, and they’re big enough, and their customers are loyal enough, that they can resist supporting Apple Pay. Netflix doesn’t support TV app integration because they want to control the customer viewing experience directly, and they’re big enough, and their customers are loyal enough, that they can resist supporting Apple’s TV app.
A project is what IBM delivered at e&. Custom integration, IBM Consulting on-site, bespoke architecture tailored to one customer’s requirements. It works, but it doesn’t scale. Every enterprise becomes its own implementation, with its own timeline, its own integration challenges, its own dependency on consulting availability.
“A platform is repeatable. Channel partners can sell it. Your team can operate it. Reference architectures exist for common workloads. You’re buying a product, not hiring an implementation.”
Even Jamie Dimon is like: fellas, fellas….let’s slow-roll destroying society as we know it…
if AI is imposed on them in one fell swoop when effective driverless vehicles hit the road, all those people could potentially go from making $150,000 a year to $25,000 in their next jobs: “Should you do it all at once?… No, you will have civil unrest, so phase it in.”
🔗 JPMorgan CEO urges slowdown of AI roll-out to ‘save society’
Enterprise ROI still elusive
More than half of CEOs report seeing neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI, despite massive investments in the technology, according to a PwC survey of 4,454 business leaders"… Only 12 percent reported both lower costs and higher revenue, while 56 percent saw neither benefit. Twenty-six percent saw reduced costs, but nearly as many experienced cost increases.
🔗 Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge
Debating AI dicks is pointless
He’s never been a fan of AI:
I’ve stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs…this is still a crowd that is explicitly fine with using tools that are themselves deeply unethical."
Going all “but it works great for me” even as the industry burns around you and the “it” is a right-wing political project built on disregarding consent, being applied to dismantle public infrastructure and institutions, is fundamentally a dick move.