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.
Those Gemini slides and infographics are OK. What would be awesome is deciding as a civilization that we don’t want to handcraft slides and infographics anymore, and we’re cool with just letting the AIs make them based on the documents we write and give to the AIs to make their bad-ass vaporware slides.
(Then I could just say, “cool slide - mind sending me the original doc?")
(Wow,…and, yes, but: holy-fuck, that infographic is good.)
Shutdown and consolidate old IT so you can focus on new IT, like AI hoopla
People often say they spend 80% of their IT efforts on maintenance, “keeping the lights on”:
Like all banks, our technology expenditure has been weighted towards maintenance and regulatory programs. These activities represented around 85% of our tech investment spend in 2024.
So, simplifying that, shutting down old things is a positive thing to do;
We are simplifying our IT, reducing the number of applications and increasing the use of APIs and standardized tools.
As we continue to accelerate the pace of digital innovation across our global operations in an uncertain world, maintaining control over data locality and security is paramount," said Daniele Tonella, Chief Technology Officer, ING. “VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will provide us with the unified, enterprise-grade private cloud platform necessary to achieve multi-region consistency, enhance workload mobility, and confidently meet the complex cloud sovereignty and compliance requirements that underpin our commitment to our customers.
🔗 ING Selects VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 as Strategic Platform for Private Cloud Modernization
Amazon's enterprise AI strategy, explained by Neil Ward-Dutton
Neil Ward-Dutton, an IDC analyst focused on AI, automation, data and analytics, said three announcements on the first day of the conference were of note. “AWS AI Factories is one,” he said. “These are AWS AI infrastructure and software stacks, built and managed by AWS, but deployed in customers’ own datacentres. “These are, at least initially, aimed at the largest customers with the most challenging security or sovereignty requirements.”
“While the JavaScript language didn’t ship publicly until that September and didn’t reach a 1.0 release until March 1996, the descendants of Eich’s initial 10-day hack now run on approximately 98.9 percent of all websites with client-side code, making JavaScript the dominant programming language of the web. It’s wildly popular; beyond the browser, JavaScript powers server backends, mobile apps, desktop software, and even some embedded systems. According to several surveys, JavaScript consistently ranks among the most widely used programming languages in the world.
🔗 In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
“The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.” As summarized a bit better: “The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.”
🔗 Why people like your quick bullshit takes better than your high-effort posts