Linux Foundation Appoints Jonathan Bryce to Lead CNCF - Good appointments.
New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal - Looks good, helpful, and fun.
How much does AI impact development speed? - “AI sped up task completion by ~21%.” // Aside: Love the implication that 21% is approximate. Are we talking a difference in decimals here, or the actually number? Is it between 21.08% and 21.5%, or 19% and 22%?
Can you add AI to existing application - it's unsatisfying...so far
If you program enterprise apps, it’s likely in Java. And if you Java, you probably use the Spring Framework. Come to the Spring conference by the Spring people, SpringOne, August 25th to 28th in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. There’s several sessions posted now: you can see there’s stuff from foundational Spring stuff, AI and MCP, to managing Spring in large organizations. You also get access to all of Explore, which is a whole lot of cloud, platform engineering, DevOps, and ops stuff.
The Am Dash - A version of the m-dash that’s purposefully human.
Stop pontificating about other people losing their jobs to AI and worry about your own job - More executives need to use AI for a month straight. This will both de-hype enterprise magical thinking and help us come up with more uses that accrue value to the organization. In the meantime, most of the value of AI accrues to the individual. Which, really, is fine with me…maybe executives should not use AI.
The 2025 CEO Agenda: Leading in an AI-Driven World, IDC - “In what areas have you achieved measurable business benefits from GenAl initiatives?": Increased operational efficiency: 31%; Improved customer satisfaction: 30%; Improved business resilience: 27%. n=278 CEOs.
Microsoft is pushing Copilot, but everyone just wants ChatGPT - The ChatGPT brand is strong: “OpenAI has said it has 3 million paying enterprise customers, and that number is growing fast. Microsoft told employees that “multiple dozens” of customers have over 100,000 paying users, which would work out to a floor of 2.4 million paying Copilot licenses, but the company hasn’t shared an exact figure."
How Goodyear is trying to meet its “big, hairy, audacious goal” - time for tech execs to step up to agentic AI, says CDO Mamatha Chamarthi - Helping “coach” sales people is a popular AI use case. You can imagine prompts like “given what we know about this customer and their business, what products should we sell to them and how should we pitch them? Also, how can we maximize volume, profit, etc.?"