Tag: productivity
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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 cost of fitful night of sleep
One night of sleep loss [costs] close to €200 [£173],” she said. .. Imagine a street where there are 100 people living, everybody sleeps terribly for three nights because of a heatwave and the next day they’re unproductive. That’s your investment in trees for the whole year. 🔗 From mobile jungles to shadow art: how…
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🤖 AI Productivity Gains Stall at Firm Level: The Three Stages of ROI
Original: Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom line by Azeem Azhar. Summarized by AI on June 1, 2026. AI tools have made individual workers faster and more productive, with engineers producing more code and teams feeling tangible time savings. Yet firms see little proportional ROI, echoing Robert Solow’s paradox of computers appearing everywhere…
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If speeding up coding was never the problem…then why are we spending money on speeding it up?
When it comes to measuring developer productivity driven by AI, we’ll probably land on the same conclusion as always: counting lines of code isn’t as useful as measuring the full cycle time from idea to code to delivery to a person actually using the app – lead time, concept to cash, whatever you want to…
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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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Enterprise AI Slop
People are using AI to generate too much work because they think they know what they’re doing: A growing body of work calls this output-competence decoupling. In any previous era, the quality of a piece of work was a more or less reliable signal of the competence of the person who produced it. A novice…
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Usually life hacks and productivity tips are the same old things, these are fresher
Stop brainstorming. There’s a mountain of research showing that team brainstorming doesn’t work. There are several reasons why, some having to do with unconscious conformity, others with fear of being judged, and still others with unclear norms. (For example, people are often told to say whatever comes to mind, but also not to criticize.) Some…
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trying your best properly rated
widely accepted reading of the-west-wing, as such, is that of a liberal Fantasia, not because it depicts the Bartlet administration as being liberal, but because it depicts a world in which the best possible thing you can do is to try very hard to do the right thing — and the liberals, or really the…
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Never start deep work if you know you’ll be interrupted soon.
I wake up at six every morning to have coffee, read The Economist briefing, and read my “RSS feeds.” Everyone else is asleep, and it is quiet and dark. This is when I find things to bookmark and share, or just read and inform myself. Sometimes I start projects. Recently, getting all my janky AI…
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de-weirding enterprise AI
Ethan Mollick: The de-weirding impulse produces a second, deeper failure: it leads companies to default towards automation rather than augmentation. When leaders see studies showing productivity gains of 30% from AI, their instinct is to cut 30% of the workforce. That arithmetic is simple. What is hard, and requires genuine imagination, is asking a different…
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Enterprise ROI: Banking edition
Maybe no new banking businesses from AI yet: “It is a long, expensive and risk-constrained transformation,” Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo wrote in a note to investors last week. “Indeed, we can’t find one extremely noteworthy new product or service from AI in these very early days (it’s been a little boring from a product…
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It’s real, enterprises just need to do the CISO work and SRE work
After using Claude more and more for task in my personal life, my current zinger analyst take on the Squawk Box would be: “OpenAI talks about business strategy, Anthropic just does it.” It’s really getting close to a sci-fi personal assistant. It takes A LOT of work to get your rig (or “harness”) setup, and…
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AI use isn’t about firing people, it’s about making the people you already have more productive. You have to change your corporate system/culture to adapt to that: However, when finance leaders seek to identify where this return appears in terms of headcount shifts or cycle-time compression, the answers are less clear. These gains remain trapped…
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When to use AI for writing, and when it’s totally acceptable
If you’re dyslexic and just trying to communicate more clearly in writing, or you’ve got a bullshit job and you just want to get your bullshit job’s bullshit tasks out of the way so you can move on to more meaningful endeavors, or at least move past the day-to-day slog that permeates your workday and…
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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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“Greedy work” refers to jobs in which earnings are convex in hours – meaning that working longer, more continuous, and less flexible hours is rewarded disproportionately rather than proportionally. {Summarized by the robot.} And, from Claudia Goldin: Greedy work can be defined as a job that pays disproportionately more on a per-hour basis when someone…
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You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.” 🔗 The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most
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Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive, but 48% of surveys say they’ve been cutting humans
AI is still stuck in “efficiency mode.” In many organizations, a technology organization leads AI efforts and is treated as a cost center. Those CIOs are incentivized to optimize for efficiency, not growth. The result is predictable: Tech-led AI strategies deliver productivity improvements, but not transformation. Equally concerning is that technology and AI executives tell…
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Google shows that large language models, when paired with traditional tools and validation pipelines, can accelerate enterprise code migrations by 50% or more, unblocking projects stalled for years. The robot says: The most dramatic impact occurred in previously stalled migrations, which AI unblocked after years of delay. One migration achieved an 89% estimated time savings,…
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Enterprise ROI is elusive – maybe ROI is just headcount chopping, not revenue growth and “transformation”
From “that meeting could have been an email” to “that meeting could have been a ChatGPT session.” Recent Forrester survey summary: AI is still stuck in “efficiency mode.” In many organizations, a technology organization leads AI efforts and is treated as a cost center. Those CIOs are incentivized to optimize for efficiency, not growth. The…
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