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Links, news articles, clippings, etc. – classic blog-style.
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Six to eight weeks, down to two days – How Tanzu Product Management Uses AI
I talked with Chris McClanahan and Purnima Padmanabhan about how the Tanzu product management team actually put AI to work. Ideation went from six to eight weeks to a couple of days, and almost none of what got them there was tooling. It was org chart work: one pod instead of hand-offs, onboarding the AI…
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AI makes people more productive, not organizations – Elusive Enterprise AI ROI
For enterprises to get the most out of their AI investments, they should think about going deep with their AI deployments, not wide, Ashraf said. Instead of applying AI across every process in an organization, find the few instances where automating workflows with an agentic system could make the most impact. And: While 78% of…
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sell on story, or sell on revenue
If you’re an entrepreneur in the venture game, you should internalize this. You either get sold for a strategic multiple (that would be Airtable at $11.7B), or you get sold for a multiple of revenue (2-5x, likely driven by your ability to turn a profit), or you reach public markets and hopefully a self sustaining…
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when exporting your data is difficult
The client could copy the database, but the database structure was so complex, they couldn’t make sense of it, and had been working for ten months with limited progress. My colleague’s idea was to use an AI to build JavaScript scripts that scraped the UI. Since the data was presented from the UI, it was…
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AI layoffs get mixed results
[Forrester’s] survey of leaders found 55 percent of employers regret having made tech-driven staff cuts—leading its analysts to predict ‘half of AI-attributed layoffs [will] be quietly reversed.’” And: ‘Staffing company Robert Half has estimated that a third of hiring executives who said they’d eliminated roles due to AI automation had rehired those employees or recruited…
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There is no organizational-level ROI for AI, just IC ROI
The best theory of elusive enterprise AI ROI yet: AI makes workers more productive, not organization: “How can you reconcile the failure of AI in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that AI is helping them do great work?” The answer is that these AI users are “centaurs” — experienced…
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labeled AI
This applies to generated images, audio and text, as long as they were designed to look real. This content will get slapped with a digital watermark. The rules do not apply to personal content, so custom group chat jokes are still safe. Also, there’s an exemption for “evidently artistic” satirical and fictional works. Meanwhile, AI…
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mainframes still run money
COBOL remains a widely-used but aging programming language that works across mainframe computers and legacy operating systems, supporting more than 40% of online banking systems, 80% of in-person credit card transactions and 95% of ATM transactions, according to mainframe provider IBM. 🔗 AI shifts mainframe modernization strategy
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Reorganizing the dev teams at Visa to take advantage of AI
When you speed up the SDLC process, you should collapse silo’ed teams into one team to prevent human bottlenecks based on handoffs. Here’s that at Visa: As a result of the unlocks we can realize with this new tooling, we are re-forming our product development teams that used to be 10 or more into smaller…
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Using frontier models to find security problems in Spring Framework – a trickle turned into a tidal wave
“In March, we saw 55 reports coming from the community. In April, that went to 112. April is also when we finally got access to those frontier models and started doing internal scanning, and our internal scans gave us another 370 internal reports.” Michael Minella on the Spring Team. The historical baseline was about seven…
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more marketing context, more better AI for marketing
AI just makes good things gooder, and bad things badder: The real work starts before evaluating tools or issuing an RFP. Marketers need defined personas, clear messaging frameworks, content standards, governance processes, reusable content, and alignment on measuring success. AI performs only as well as the context it’s given. Organizations that establish the richest context,…
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How to make better enterprise AI ROI metrics and dashboards
Encode what you should next in AI ROI metrics, don’t leave the decision up to post-metrics vibes. Make the decision before making the metrics. Translate the decision into language that people use before packaging it up into quantifiable metrics. For example, ‘Should we scale this AI feature from 10% to 100%?’ or ‘Should we fund…
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AI moral panic
AI amplifies your current state, moral panic edition: Perhaps intuitively and certainly as framed by popular narratives, AICs aggravate precisely these existential nerves. They simulate social processes that sustain us as a species with all our intimate bonds. And yes, that such bonds could be reproduced, even superficially, by non-conscious systems feels deeply transgressive to…
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New spec maks MCP more enterprise-y, scalable, and otherwise performant
The biggest change in today’s update is an overhaul of how MCP processes request metadata. Previously, AI applications sent metadata via a relatively complex workflow called a handshake. The new MCP release removes the workflow, which has several benefits. One is that it makes it easier to scale MCP applications in response to traffic spikes.…
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How people use AI in 2026: TV, homework, the DMV
Google looked at 15 million Gemini conversations and found people mostly asking about TV, homework, and government paperwork. Work is 13.5% of it, and almost none of that is trying to automate anything. Also: what the study leaves out, which is most of enterprise AI.
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Relative to your interests, Thursday
The return of the 3 R’s!!! These were the best R’s. – “A decade ago, Pivotal published a security manifesto, a radical call to action of sorts, via a blog post that broke the glass of traditional security culture inside of enterprise IT. The premise was faster is safer, a radical departure from the calcified,…
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Relative to your interests, Wednesday
After reading many of the below and other links in elusive enterprise AI ROI, I wrote this theory on how to be successful with enterprise AI projects. It’s the usual “culture” cliché, but hopefully a little more practical than usual. Are PMs becoming irrelevant? – Once you remove the need for a bunch of “paperwork,”…
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AI won’t fix your broken culture, but you can fix your broken culture
AI amplifies what you have: good processes get faster, bad ones get worse. Getting real enterprise AI ROI means changing how you work – structure, focus, scope.
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Young people are cheaper and complain less
Yes: The company has cut roughly 30,000 corporate jobs since last October. But: Amazon, he noted, is hiring 11,000 interns and new grads this year. Resulting business value: And when you talk about entry-level jobs, number one, they’re your cheapest employees. They haven’t learned bad habits. You can teach them the culture, they’re willing to…
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AI is good at bullshit work, find ROI there
One company encouraged widespread vibe-coding from citizen developers but recoiled from the problems of the huge shadow IT that emerged – they are now looking to build a platform to help control this work without stifling the useful tools that were produced. Part of the problem here may be simple experience with LLMs. Many in…
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