Gartner Unveils Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users in 2025 and Beyond - “By 2029, 10% of global boards will use AI guidance to challenge executive decisions that are material to their business.” // Weird prediction.
Users remain on PostgreSQL 12 as end of life looms - “Users of PostgreSQL 12 have less than a month to prepare for the database to enter end of life and become unsupported."
Always talk salary first - working with tech recruiters
Whitney has a LinkedIn problemOur second episode of the Software Defined Interviews reboot is up:
Whitney and Coté talk with Sidney Miller about tech recruitment. They talk a lot about the process from both sides: people hiring and people looking for jobs. Plus, some thoughts on working at Neiman Marcus. Find Sidney in LinkedIn.
More details:
They explore effective strategies for both the hirer and the job seeker. Key topics include the comprehensive role of tech recruiters, tactics for handling diverse skill sets, inclusion efforts, unbiased interview practices, and the significance of empathy and transparency.
LinkedIn is the new social media channel baseline - “You can see how much Twitter has fallen by how well LinkedIn performs in comparison."
How you use customer GPTs - Great looking uses for custom GPTs, and thus AI in general.
United credits tech and staff investments for rising NPS scores - A rare example of an enterprise praising better user experience for helping the business. // “to create an airline that customers choose to fly, we need to deliver a great customer experience."
What Is the Point of Austin’s Fake AI Restaurant? - You usually this to build up follow for an account to sell to someone, then they delete all the content and start new with all those followers. But wouldn’t be it cool if it was some kind of new, surreal performance art?
Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.11.4: forests - This looks great: I like this map generator but always want more trees.
Three fun fonts and stories of enterprise data integration
Let’s start with some YAGV (yet another goofy video):
Relative to your interestsSpring AI: An AI framework for Java developers - No python? No problem.
The Great Data Integration Schlep - ‘Every company has something fucked-up and dumb going on somewhere, no matter how admirable they are in other respects, and if they’re facing an existential crisis there’s definitely something going badly wrong that somebody doesn’t want to face. If you ever want to get all your data in one place, you need to figure out some of the shape of the Badness, in an environment where most of the people you meet are presenting as “reasonable and highly competent professionals” and everybody’s got a different story about the Badness and why it’s unavoidable or someone else’s fault.
The Cloud Foundry Renaissance, Julian Fischer, CF Day EU 2024 - This is a good talk, content wise and also structure wise. It has a point of view, a vision, finds a problem, and then launches a product.