Tag: AI
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Beyond mystic management mind-games
Searching for Cheap Tricks The amount of AI content and conversations out there is getting exhausting. It’s almost as bad as the burbling font of platform engineering content that gets rewritten and published each week. The below RAND paper and commentary got me thinking though: a lot of the AI talk is just talk about…
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Is AI a Silver Bullet? – “This is the trade off we have seen before: eliminating the accidental complexity of authoring code has less value than we think because code spends most of its time in maintenance, so the maintainability of the code is more important than the speed to author it.”
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How the buildings you occupy might be affecting your brain | Psyche Ideas – “Could bad architecture also be contributing to the development of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders?”
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The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed: Avoiding the Anti-Patterns of AI | RAND – As ever, communicating the requirements and the problem to be solved to IT is difficult and often results in solving the wrong problem, at least in the right way: “In failed projects, either…
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Why “AI” projects fail – “And we’ve been doing this for decades now, with every new technology we spend a lot of money to get a lot of bloody noses for way too little outcome. Because we keep not looking at actual, real problems in front of us – that the people affected by them…
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perplexity.ai is great
Just links and fun finds. Before “fun” was invented. Found in Amsterdam thrift shop. Relevant to your interests I didn’t do link round-ups this past week, so there’s a backlog. Also, I’ve been using Perplexity to summarize some articles (not listed here, usually). I think it’s pretty good, and I recommend you use it. Amazon’s…
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analyze_interviewer_techniques – “You are a hyper-intelligent AI system with a 4,312 IQ. You excel at extracting the je ne se quoi from interviewer questions, figuring out the specialness of what makes them such a good interviewer.”
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Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be – Maybe private AI will really be a thing: ‘“We are still in the early innings, and our AI opportunity with tier 2 CSPs, enterprise, and emerging sovereign customers is immense,” Jeff Clarke, Dell’s chief operating officer, explained on the call with Wall Street…
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Does Market Share Still Matter? – “we find that the positive relationship between market share and profitability generally still holds, but that it weakens with greater digital transformation. This means that market share increases translate into lower profitability gains for highly digitalized compared to less-digitalized companies. Additionally, it implies that digital transformation benefits smaller firms…
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Private Cloud at VMware Explore – Notebook
Normally I wouldn’t disclaim this since I think you, dear readers, are wise enough to know that it always applies, but: these views are my own, not my employer, VMware Tanzu by Broadcom. Also, we covered the below on this week’s Software Defined Talk. If you prefer to listen a podcast, it’ll be out on…
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Enterprise-grade Spring, and quick AI apps with Java
SpringOne Yesterday we put on Spring One. There’s still sessions going on, which you can watch live if you register for free. Here’s some highlights. We went over one of the most valuable products the Tanzu team has put out this year: the Spring Application Advisor. You set this up in your pipeline and it…
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Amazon’s CEO says their AI tool has saved them a crazy amount of time – This oddly specific, and a big deal if applicable to other organizations. // ‘The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours,” he wrote. “We estimate this has…
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Developer Content That Ranks in 2024 – Educational content attracts the most attention (“how to”). Also content where you define things (“what is”). Converting that content into sales, or at least pipeline, is the secret magic.
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How public intellectuals can extend their shelf lives – Spend a lot of time steering yourself to be optimistic, and engineer a continuous drip of new ideas and perspectives.
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C-suite enthusiasm over generative AI wanes, putting pressure on quick wins – “Interest in the [AI] technology fell 11 percentage points among senior executives and eight percentage points among board of directors, respectively, since Deloitte’s Q1 2024 survey.” // I think the people most enthusiastic about enterprise AI haven’t actually used even enough consumer AI…
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IDC’s Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending – Industry Outlook – “IDC has recently unveiled the latest release of its Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide, 2024 V2. Presently, the global Artificial Intelligence market stands at nearly $235 billion, with projections indicating a rise to over $631 billion by 2028.” // Something is weird…
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AI may be distracting organizations from other IT priorities – Well, things are getting better, but enterprise AI is a distraction from keeping the lights on. // “IBM reports that fewer than half of the respondents believe their IT organization is effective in delivering basic services, compared to 69 percent from a survey in 2013.…
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Walmart used AI to crunch 850M product data points and improve CX – “The primary in-store improvement is that associates’ can use in-store technology like mobile tools to quickly locate inventory and get items on shelves or to waiting customers — a significant upgrade from the ‘treasure hunt’ of finding items in years past”
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“weird varieties of beastman” & tips on platform engineering
Just fun finds and links today. Wastebook “FWD: RE: radioactive fungus email from grandma” Here. “I don’t know about you, but I think a campaign setting ruled by evil angels and their witch-wives, populated by giants (perhaps not 3,500 metres tall) who eat one another and human beings, and who have sex with animals to…
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AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy growing – “Assuming the bubble does not burst, S&P forecasts global AI spending to grow by more than 20 percent through 2028, when it is estimated to account for 14 percent of total global IT spending, up from 6 percent in 2023.”
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