Achieving enterprise AI ROI still tough:
According to a recent Gartner poll, over half (53%) of participants were exploring Agentic AI, whereas 25% were piloting it and only 6% had reached production mode. The high exploration and pilot percentages suggest strong interest and perceived potential in Agentic AI. However, ==the low production percentage implies barriers to scaling, such as technical complexity, lack of maturity in tools, governance challenges==, or unclear ROI.
Spending less money on IT is always the priority, and how to get around it
The survey of more than 200 CFOs, taken during August 2025, showed that 56% of CFOs rank achieving enterprise-wide cost optimization targets in their top five. Gartner CFO survey.
The easiest way to show the value of IT is to show how it means spending less money. There’s occasional moments where “ROI” is achieved by existential dread - the tech industry is going to Blockbuster you, etc. But those are largely made up, at the least, way overblown.
Relative to your interests on Wednesday
Hasbro thinks AI is fine, so maybe it’s fine, even helpful for the enjoyment of D&D. “Necrobotics is a field of engineering that builds robots out of a mix of synthetic materials and animal body parts.” Do all the self-service platform engineering stuff with your own, thrilling middleware! Surveying the platform engineers and developers about their feelings actually works. Always check your sources when you criticize a best selling author that’s active on the World Wide Web.
Woke fonts. I wasn’t sure what size they used for Courier New.1 How I long for the all business, utilitarian thrill of Courier New… It was a simpler time.
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From the original memo, it looks like 12 point? ↩︎
“snorkeling in the shit-infused shallow end of the Dunning-Kruger pool” But, please, tell us what you really think
If you are only allowed to learn from the internet at age 16, you are probably not ready for marvelous achievements at age 18 or perhaps not even at 20. The country may become more mediocre.
“No. Make it shorter. Tea please.” The PowerPoint Guru.
Highlights from that OpenAI "The state of enterprise AI report"
On average, ChatGPT Enterprise users attribute 40–60 minutes of time saved per active day to their use of AI, with data science, engineering, and communications workers saving more than average (60–80 minutes per day).
That’s the headline grabbing piece from the recent ChatGPT for work study. The theory take-away from that is that the more you use ChatGPT, the more productive you are.
Also, the current use revolves around chat and coding.
The robot says:
Underwood was the typewriter brand for much of the early 20th century. Hemingway, Stein, and most journalists of the period used machines that looked basically like this. By 1939 they had produced their five-millionth unit, which was unheard of at the time.
And:
These machines were tanks. Everything is metal, everything is mechanical. If you oil it and replace the ribbon, chances are it would still work.
Found at the local skating rink, of all places.
