Tag: Gartner

  • 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

    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

    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

    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

    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.…

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  • Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs – Related to your interests, Saturday morning

    Mainframe to remain undefeated by AI, vaguebooking, and the problem with seldom-used PCs – Related to your interests, Saturday morning

    Also: OpenAI’s enterprise play, Gemini voice acting, and airline antitrust I’ve covered our announcements this week about Tanzu platform agent foundations in other posts, check that out if you’re into that kind of thing. Now, onto usual nonsense… Duivendrecth fire station, early Spring 2026. Related to your interests Private Cloud Data Intelligence: The Case for…

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  • Related to your interests, Tuesday

    Related to your interests, Tuesday

    The Links Gartner Research Reveals CFOs’ Budget Plans Prioritize Growth Functions, Technology and AI in 2026 – More spending on tech, less on people. The Supreme Court doesn’t care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art – I think this means you can’t copyright stuff made by AI? In the US, at least. How…

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  • Management is always eager to “reduce costs.”

    The real story lies “in collapsing headcount growth expectations, from 6% in 2025 to just 2% in 2026 with just 21% of CFOs planning staff increases of 4% to 9%, down from 31% last year,” Nauman Abbasi, vice president analyst in Gartner’s finance practice, said in the release. “This marks a structural pivot from labor…

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  • Related to your interests, Thursday

    Why it was a Boston vacation. Europe set to treble sovereign cloud investment – “European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.” More context: Sovereign Computing, panel – This was a great panel, very detailed…

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  • Relevant to your interests, Monday

    Relevant to your interests, Monday

    I’m at cfgmgmtcamp today and tomorrow, in Ghent. Later today, I have a talk, and then a live Software Defined Interviews recording, with returning guest Andrew Clay Shafer. Americans can expect to live longer than ever, per the latest CDC data – ”newborn Americans in 2024 could expect to live to 79 on average” CIOs…

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  • Related to your interests, Saturday

    Related to your interests, Saturday

    Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays – “If your life is going to be 80% Mondays and their equivalents, the design specifications for Monday matter more than the design specifications for your vacation.” The State Of GenAI And Consumers For 2026 – As agentic AI ascends, companies are grappling with control –…

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  • You need to write SEO and enterprise research text for AIs now, in addition to humans. Does this mean separate pages, often hidden from humans like we see for search engine SEO? Probably. A Gartner survey of 377 U.S. consumers, conducted in June and July 2025, revealed that rather than shortcutting decisions, AI features are…

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  • Industry analyst value after AI – how could Gartner use AI

    Feeding the decades of Gartner research into some kind of AI querying thing would be interesting. Making sense of their reports takes a lot of time, and multi-year trends are hard to pick out. Writing into a chat window that was updated with not only the research reports, but also analyst opinions – maybe notes…

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  • Day 2 AI looms

    Achieving enterprise AI ROI still tough: According to a recent Gartner poll, over half (53%) of participants were exploring Agentic AI, whereas 25% were piloting it and only 6% had reached production mode. The high exploration and pilot percentages suggest strong interest and perceived potential in Agentic AI. However, ==the low production percentage implies barriers…

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  • Spending less money on IT is always the priority, and how to get around it

    Spending less money on IT is always the priority, and how to get around it

    The survey of more than 200 CFOs, taken during August 2025, showed that 56% of CFOs rank achieving enterprise-wide cost optimization targets in their top five. Gartner CFO survey. The easiest way to show the value of IT is to show how it means spending less money. There’s occasional moments where “ROI” is achieved by…

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  • AI uses in finance, survey

    Three use cases stood out as they have been adopted by more than a third of respondents that had implemented AI in their function. Knowledge management – helping organizations organize, retrieve, and leverage information for better decision-making – is the most common AI use case (49%) in finance organizations, followed by accounts payable process automation…

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  • The Europeans are not digging the American public cloud of late. “Europe is facing regulatory pressure, competition between countries, geopolitical tensions, and national security concerns-all focused on making sure Europe can develop and manage AI systems on its own, without depending on foreign platforms or providers,” said Lovelock. Leading to: IT spending in Europe is…

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  • IT spending in Europe will grow 11 percent next year to hit $1.4 trillion amid a desire for cloud sovereignty, according to Gartner. Up from $1.3t in 2025. Spending on GenAI models is set to grow 78 percent next year in Europe as organizations look to increase investment in AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. “61 percent…

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  • The top use cases for AI agent pilots for marketing technology leaders are content or marketing asset production, cited by 52% of leaders piloting these tools. Other top use cases include content and marketing asset enrichment (49%) and campaign management/optimization (43%). 🔗 Gartner Survey Finds 45% of Martech Leaders Say Existing Vendor-Offered AI Agents Fail…

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