Tag: normies
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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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Feed the context eating beast
Getting sales people to read and understand your go-to-market material has always been tough. If AI can help, then it means marketing people need to spend more time on the strategy and raw material to feed into the AI machine: settling on stories, gathering customer references, objection handling, and overall thought leadership. A large part…
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Unrealized potential in normie AI use
What is the diffusion gap? It’s the delta between what you can accomplish with models (ie how powerful they are) and how the average person uses models. 🔗 Unrealized potential in normie AI use Related, from the ponders at Anthropic:
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Siri actually works now…?
At least, it seems to real good for David Pogue. Related: a more technical overview of using voice with AI. 🔗 125 Tests of the New AI Siri
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funky lifestyle demos
I feel we’re coming to another plateau of decreasing returns, because even as models keep getting (arguably) smarter, what you can do with them beyond flashy demos hasn’t really gelled into useful outcomes yet. … AI is not going to be much help with that, other than remove toil (yes, it will sort out your…
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If you don’t know how to use AI at work, it doesn’t work well
You need to train people how to use AI, otherwise the results are not great: Because the real problem here is that to judge something – both during and after production – you have to master the topic you want to judge. And to master a topic you need to practice it for 10,000 hours…
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AI adoption at work is broad but shallow
Overall, as of May 2026, 55 percent of US adults between the ages of 18 and 64 used generative AI for non-work reasons and 45 percent of US adults used GenAI for work, according to the paper. The overall adoption rate (work or otherwise) is 62 percent. 🔗 AI adoption at work is broad but…
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AI remove’s labor’s toil, capital doesn’t know what to do with AI – Elusive Enterprise ROI
Another way to say that is, AI has opened the door to humans spending more time making things instead of being crushed by meetings and process and bureaucracy. Also, from the same: Another way to say that is, AI has opened the door to humans spending more time making things instead of being crushed by…
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here come the normies
Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Across the industry Accenture is seeing “soaring token spend,” according to the audio. To consider: There is a…
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The users have plenty of feature ideas
AI allows people who aren’t software engineers to build meaningful software. Those of us who are software engineers at companies should stop building features and focus instead on building systems that allow people on the sales team, the factory shop floor, etc. etc. etc. to ship safely. 🔗 notes from o11ycon 2026