Struggling with your marketing strategy? You’re not alone. Here’s some things to think about in 2025 - I think that, like all struggling corporate functions, the answer is to make sure you’re actually doing the basics. // Also, less planning, more clicking the publish button: quality through quantity. // And, some AI use suggestions.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies - That should get a lot of enterprise CISO’s to move in allowing AI in their orgs. // ”Since the beginning of 2024, OpenAI said that more than 90,000 employees of federal, state and local governments have generated more than 18 million prompts within ChatGPT, using the tech to translate and summarize documents, write and draft policy memos, generate code, and build applications. The user interface for ChatGPT Gov looks like ChatGPT Enterprise. The main difference is that government agencies will use ChatGPT Gov in their own Microsoft Azure commercial cloud, or Azure Government community cloud, so they can “manage their own security, privacy and compliance requirements,” Felipe Millon, who leads federal sales and go-to-market for OpenAI, said on the call with reporters.”
What I’ve learned about writing AI apps so far - Lessons learned.
Recovering from the platform dark ages, and freaking out about cheap AI
Interview: Brian GracelyWhitney and I interviewed Brian Gracely for this week’s Software Defined Interviews episode. It was a great, big ol’ basket of topics: the process of gathering and reporting cloud news, the evolution of PaaS, and the pros and cons of working at small startups versus large companies. Also: career advice, the importance of communicating value within organizations, and how to stay relevant in the ever-changing tech landscape. And still more: Brian shares insights on how to generate engaging content for podcasts and the impact of internal communication on company culture.
4 Lessons We Learned from Bringing AI to Our Company - “Next, you’ll face potential roadblocks, as privacy and security teams will be looking into where the models you use are hosted and where the data is stored. Chat.com, Gemini.com, or anything free of charge and a privacy nightmare is out of the question."
Are better models better? - “Part of the concept of ‘Disruption’ is that important new technologies tend to be bad at the things that matter to the previous generation of technology, but they do something else important instead."
Observability: the present and future, with Charity Majors - “The main trend across the industry: consolidation. Companies try to control their bills."
OpenAI releases Operator agent as rivals enhance their AI services - ”When users ask Operator to perform a task in a website, the agent navigates to the relevant URL using a built-in browser. It can type, click and scroll to carry out the requested action. Operator regularly takes screenshots of the website to check that everything is working as expected. ”
Intuit CTO keeps 8,000 engineers on track with a base platform of common services - Centralizing, standardizing.
The 2024 State of Platform Engineering? Fledgling at Best - The New Stack - “The majority of the organizations surveyed – 56% – have had platform teams for less than two years. A mere 13% of respondents reported working in “platform engineering” for more than five years."