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My grandfather was mildly obsessed with organizing and documenting the history of his life: a memoir about a career in the military from 1938 to ~1975, growing up in a Depression era Oklahoma “dirt farm.”

There was also geology. I think all old people have that project. Us soon to be old Gen-X’ers have more records around than probably any human in history, especially the nerds. Soon, we’ll all be obsessively organizing the equivalent of our 40 year slides and boxes of receipts. Personal digital gnolling.

AI use isn’t about firing people, it’s about making the people you already have more productive. You have to change your corporate system/culture to adapt to that:

However, when finance leaders seek to identify where this return appears in terms of headcount shifts or cycle-time compression, the answers are less clear. These gains remain trapped inside individual workflows unless leadership intentionally redesigns roles and budgets to capture the reclaimed time. This occurs because saved time is often re-absorbed into low-value activities—like more internal meetings or unnecessary emails—rather than being structurally harvested through role reclassification or a mandate and clearance to shift time toward higher-value strategic work.

From: The “Last Mile” Problem Slowing AI Transformation

When Developer Workflow Discipline Isn’t Enough thectoadvisor.com/blog/2026… Selling cross-silo enterprise infrastructure stuff is very difficult:

These are platform engineering objections. And they’re coming from a team the vendor never talked to. Because the vendor optimized their story for developer adoption. They have research that tells them developers love this. What they don’t have is a conversation with the platform team that has to decide whether this can actually be operationalized inside a real enterprise environment."

It’s pretty much always devs versus ops in enterprises. They need organizational therapy from the top, and then the tools.