An American came to stay – and completely changed my attitude to water - As Europe gets hotter (not good, sure, but:), hopefully they’ll understand the pleasure of ice water.
Developer Content That Ranks in 2024 - Educational content attracts the most attention (“how to”). Also content where you define things (“what is”). Converting that content into sales, or at least pipeline, is the secret magic.
How public intellectuals can extend their shelf lives - Spend a lot of time steering yourself to be optimistic, and engineer a continuous drip of new ideas and perspectives.
C-suite enthusiasm over generative AI wanes, putting pressure on quick wins - “Interest in the [AI] technology fell 11 percentage points among senior executives and eight percentage points among board of directors, respectively, since Deloitte’s Q1 2024 survey.” // I think the people most enthusiastic about enterprise AI haven’t actually used even enough consumer AI to get a grasp on how little AI can actually do. And, as with new tech (like cloud computing in the early 2010’s), they underestimate how expensive it is to use, and how difficult it is the change how their organization functions. // Also, there’s a bit danger that the AI-driven company valuations jumps too quickly drop due to lowered expectations.
IDC’s Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending – Industry Outlook - “IDC has recently unveiled the latest release of its Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide, 2024 V2. Presently, the global Artificial Intelligence market stands at nearly $235 billion, with projections indicating a rise to over $631 billion by 2028.” // Something is weird with this estimate. There’s no way companies found an extra $235 billion to spent on new IT projects. And if they’re reallocating that money from other IT projects, like, your grocery buying app is going to stop working because there’s no budget for the computer needed to run it.
Private Cloud - What’s in a Name? - “Forrester’s “Private Cloud Market Insights, 2023” reporting that 79% of surveyed cloud decision makers are implementing internal private clouds” (Source: "Private Cloud Market Insights, 2023," Forrester).
AI may be distracting organizations from other IT priorities - Well, things are getting better, but enterprise AI is a distraction from keeping the lights on. // “IBM reports that fewer than half of the respondents believe their IT organization is effective in delivering basic services, compared to 69 percent from a survey in 2013. Among chief execs, that figure is 36 percent today, down from 64 percent previously, while for chief financial officers, the figures are 50 percent now, down from 60 percent before…. What might be causing this? The Armonk-based biz says that 43 percent of surveyed tech CxOs indicated that concerns about their IT infrastructure have increased over the past six months due to the focus on optimizing their infrastructure for generative AI."
Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management?
Are you at a large organization doing platform engineering? Have you been building and/or using a platform? How are you introducing product management in your operations group? I want to test a theory that’s come up in my conversations a lot this summer: introducing product management into ops and infrastructure organizations is too difficult. It won’t work. There are teams here and there that can do it, and they show up at conferences.
Finding your podcast style and character
Figuring out what kind of podcast you’re doingGarbage Chairs of AmsterdamOne of my co-workers is started a podcast and had some questions. Here’s my answers. As with most “how do I do this?” sessions, it focuses a lot on gear which I scoot away from in my answers, you know, following the cliche that the tools matter less than what you do with them. Also, the tools are tedious, but easy to learn.
Walmart used AI to crunch 850M product data points and improve CX - “The primary in-store improvement is that associates’ can use in-store technology like mobile tools to quickly locate inventory and get items on shelves or to waiting customers — a significant upgrade from the ‘treasure hunt’ of finding items in years past”