a word to my students - Copy and paste from AI only hurts the student. The rest of is should just worry about our own, ongoing shit-storms. // However, outside of education, when the point is to communicate and get shit done, I say go crazy with “chatbots.” They are probably better, more effective business writers than most.
The long slog to enterprise AI ROI. Or, digital transformation is back, baby!
Lots of AI slowdown and skepticism in the past week. Likely due to the letdown of the GPT-5 release, I guess? First, though from last month, The Economist asks “Why is AI so slow to spread?”
GPT5 says it says:
Integration Costs and Technical Frictions
Many businesses haven’t integrated their datasets effectively into the cloud, creating latency and transaction costs. Even with AI tools available, getting data into the right format and place is a barrier—making adoption slow and expensive.
The Hidden Cost of AI Pilots that Never Scale - “Scale” - that is, doing a lot of it across many different parts of your business - is where most enterprise software businesses cases succeed.
New survey reveals key differentiator for successful AI adoption: IT modernization - “With 71% of organizations actively deploying artificial intelligence (AI) at scale, the companies experiencing the most dramatic success share a common characteristic: They’ve made the most significant investments in IT modernization and are undertaking multiple AI projects simultaneously.”
What happens when one storytelling style dominates the world? - ‘I realised this, at first, when I was reading Strange Tales of the Chinese Studio, a novel written at the end of the Ming dynasty. I was amused that each story ended in a way that would make most Western readers (and probably modern Chinese ones) frustrated. It doesn’t always end with justice for the protagonist. It seems to say to us: Well, life is like this, what can we do?… What most Westerners would call a “bad ending."'
A guide to platform engineering - For those who want to “be like Google."
How to Tell if Something is AI-Written - Sure, those are good heuristics. But, I mean, if it’s good and useful, who cares? // Companion piece: how to tell if something is badly written. It is bad.
Helen Garner’s ‘How to End a Story’ - Noticing.
The Creator Economy Is a Race to the Bottom for Human Dignity - “Edelman Trust Data reveals (especially for Gen Z) that people are more likely to trust what a creator says about a brand than what the brand’s own CEO says about the brand. Compounded by parasocial relationships and a dash of isolation, people believe what tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee tells you about the new iPhone more than the company which made it. This is not a new realization…. But, it turns out that 61% of people actively hold grievances against governments, businesses and the rich."