Tag: Gartner
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Roundup for Friday
How Broadcom TrueSource handled the PHP freakout, an analog speedometer on an old police car, flipping the AI-voice bozo-bit, Agent Skills moving to the Linux Foundation, revealing interview questions, Gartner on the 13% of CIOs seeing real AI value, Photocraft versus Photoshop, and 1Password for agents.
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Normie app prediction, plus lots of IT spending in 2927
Gartner’s latest forecast calls for worldwide IT spending to reach $7.35 trillion in 2027, up 15% from 2026. More interestingly, from normie watch: “By 2029, 80% of new applications will be intentionally disposable—used for less than one year.” “AI is making application development so accessible that employees will increasingly create temporary applications to meet short-term…
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This week’s AI market math
“Enterprise and consumer AI revenue will be insufficient to support profitable returns on all planned AI capital expenditures during this period,” said Gartner Senior Director Analyst Will Sommer. AI data center owners would need to generate $8.5 trillion in revenue through 2030 to cover announced capital spending, financing costs and expected investment returns, he said.…
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Gartner is not a fan of FDEs
By 2028, 70% of enterprises will abandon agentic AI built by vendor forward-deployed engineering (FDE), trapped by soaring costs and unable to evolve it on their own according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. Vendor FDE is a model in which vendor engineers work directly with customers to build and deploy solutions.…
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These AI companies aren’t serious people w/r/t “Enterprise”
Trust in these vendors is not warranted yet. They are not enterprise grade. They don’t understand enterprise terms and conditions. They don’t understand enterprise liability. They don’t understand enterprise you know consistency and continuity… If you decide to stay with the first version of a model, they’re not going to be paying attention to you…
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One-third of AI-replaced workers will be rehired by 2029: Gartner
The consulting firm predicts that by 2029, 30% of employees laid off due to replacement by AI will need to be rehired, likely at a significantly higher cost. 🔗 One-third of AI-replaced workers will be rehired by 2029: Gartner
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Fewer than 25% of enterprises have scaled AI successfully
fewer than one-quarter of enterprises have successfully scaled AI across multiple business units, according to Gartner data released Tuesday. The IT advisory firm surveyed more than 1,300 leaders from organizations with more than $50 million in revenue between January and April of this year. 🔗 Fewer than 25% of enterprises have scaled AI successfully
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Gartner Survey Finds 87% of Customers Say Companies Using GenAI for Customer Service Must Provide Access to a Human Agent
AI can streamline service, but customers ultimately want the reassurance of human judgment. 🔗 Gartner Survey Finds 87% of Customers Say Companies Using GenAI for Customer Service Must Provide Access to a Human Agent
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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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the actual cost of AI coding is going up, and will likely increase
Research by Gartner Peer Insights has found that 23% of tech leaders are spending $200 to $500 per developer per month on tokens for artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents, such as Claude Code, Cursor and OpenAI Codex. And: The IT analyst firm has forecast that by 2028, AI coding costs will overtake the average developer’s salary…
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Sucking Air Through Their Teeth, 50/50 success/failure, and Dell’s $43B AI Server Quarter – Related to your interests, Friday
Also: the improbable life, four years working at AWS, an AI-SDLC panel debate. Spotted by Dan Bettinger in Austin. Related to your interests Most generative AI and custom model projects will be a bust: Gartner – ‘Analyst firm Gartner thinks at least half of all generative AI projects “will overrun their budgeted costs due to…
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50%+ failure is normal
Analyst firm Gartner thinks at least half of all generative AI projects “will overrun their budgeted costs due to poor architectural choices and lack of operational know-how,” and most organizations that try to build custom models “will abandon their efforts due to costs, complexity and technical debt in their deployments.” Yes, and this matches decades…
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Good O-Rings and Bad O-Rings, the AI Efficiency Plateau, and Anti-Labor by Design – Related to your interests, Thursday
Also: Goldman’s 24x token forecast, Indian IT’s process-debt pitch, NatWest’s 35% AI-generated code, Gartner’s 84% productivity theater, vibesec. From: “AI Agents Forecast to Boost Tech Cash Flow as Usage Soars,” Goldman, May, 2026 Related to your interests ‘I’m delighted to be wrong’: Sam Altman says AI won’t lead to a ‘jobs apocalypse’ – but admits…
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Elusive Enterprise AI ROI: No scaling, it’s not legible, lack of skills/need for training
Despite everything, reports are still that enterprise AI ROI is elusive. At the same time, for enterprise buyers, the bill is finally coming due for the past year of AI amazement. It’s not cheap. What’s up with this elusive enterprise AI? Gartner has some survey-driven theories for finance departments. One theory is that there actually…
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AI Pees in the Pool, Permanent Indenture, and the Metric Fuck-Ton – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: does anyone actually use microwave food-buttons? Castanet handler. Related to your interests Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck – “while coding is becoming cheaper and faster, operational complexity hasn’t disappeared” // Day 2 operations is always the bottleneck. // Also included is the current Syntasso/Kratix pitch.…