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@CPetersen_CS @dhinchcliffe Or else, mainly Sisyphean impact that lasted as long as a C-level project.

@CPetersen_CS @dhinchcliffe Agreed, though I do think that the AI/Agentic fervor is creating an opportunity to get EntArch (and Data Quality and Process/Data Governance) into the C-Suite field of vision. These disciplines always existed but rarely had much influence.

A3) All of those, and probably an empowered #EntArch capability to keep an eye on everything across the org. Organizational design can be make or break, and putting the right folks in the critical roles definitely is. #CIOChat

@EnswellJones I would definitely check the credentials. Not aware of a program that offers doctorates in "Beach", but Ken from the Barbie Movie may know of a few.

Wow, this guy really knows his stuff. Was thinking Iowa.

@akaRon @CathVSConf Like the puppy or goat yoga kind where you just chill - no dangerous stretching or weird moves.

@CathVSConf Stay off jet skis and ATVs and zip lines, etc…. How about some nice calm, safe yoga…

Heisman favorite CJ Carr posted on his IG story that he’s in Jacksonville, Florida with some teammates 👀🤔 Having outdoor hibachi — and notably, Teddy Jarrard is sitting right across from him.

@jasonhiner @Meta I assumed he meant in a Soylent Green context only.

Surprising quote of the week that went under the radar: “People will be more important in the future, not less," said Mark Zuckerberg, @Meta CEO, on the company's earnings call.

@gaelfan2000 @RadioFreeTom But only if you have one to call

@RadioFreeTom I think he’s right but he has to officially call time out first.

This is an utterly stupid interpretation of the War Powers Resolution. I think the WPR should be repealed and replaced, but as the WPR currently stands, the president saying "there's a cease-fire" does not reset the clock on situation with "imminent involvement in hostilities"

@rtlcactus @ArthurBoreman @crankyuncle2 Expressionless - Resting Bread Face?

HOW TF DO YOU EAT BREAD IRONICALLY???

@CDButler Agreed - there was often a lot of new thinking that emerged from the tortuous process of curating and editing. The rapid assembly LLM approach does a credible job of making something useful, but skips the introspection that can lead to insight.

Just diving into the "Slow Productivity" / "AI Reality Check" overlap. The danger of LLMs isn't that they'll replace us; it's that they make it too easy to be "pseudo-productive." We're generating more memos and decks than ever, but is the quality of the actual thinking improving

This is elite. I love hearing good coaches coach.

@bsniz @trillhause_ Yes, though I wonder how much of what actually goes into decision-making, judgement, and execution is actually memorialized digitally, vocally, or in print. How do we capture the memories and the thought-process?

@trillhause_ I think that's why Meta set up that system to passively monitor and consume employee info direct from systems?

This is going to be a tarpit idea. It’s good in theory, but impossible to pull off unless it’s an internal company effort by a tyrant like CEO. An external company will never be able to build a software that results in a company brain. It’s mostly because no tool will have perfect adoption from all employees and data will always be fragmented across new systems. Chaotic systems are very hard to capture. It’s impossible to perfectly extract data from all sources as companies evolve and introduces new data sources. You will spend all the time keeping track of the data instead of doing actual work. This is same trap that the second brain productivity folks fall for.

@holgermu The same is true on the enterprise customer side - if the initiative has a name, it is much more likely that it has executive support and funding.

MyPOV - A golden rule that rarely gets broken in enterprise software - apply it to AI now: When vendors use action verbs to desrribe their platform / offering. It is not real yet. When they switch to product names and version numbers, then it is. PS Roadmaps don't hurt either.

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@DoctahDean @privatefight It was an overreaction to the Bush/al-Zaidi incident. The collars thought they could prevent shoe violence by taking one away.

@privatefight The key mistake was that it was just one shoe

Wait, is today the big The Shirt day?

@dhinchcliffe I have no first-hand knowledge of this, but I wonder if any CIOs have successfully negotiated some sort of "not-to-exceed" or "limited reset" contracts in the agent space.

4/ The weakness: Pricing + spend governance are still the lurking CIO problem. OpenAI says Workspace Agents move to credit-based pricing starting May 6. But credits ≠ the same as full enterprise budget governance, chargeback, policy-based caps, or workload-level cost controls.

1/ @AnthropicAI and @OpenAI both made big enterprise agent moves this week. But they are not the same move. OpenAI is productizing agents for enterprise work. Anthropic is pushing the frontier model layer that makes serious agents better. That distinction matters a lot. 🧵👇

Top-10 NFL Draft picks: The state of Indiana: 2 The entire SEC: 1

@CPetersen_CS @joannefriedman @dhinchcliffe Yeah - I think the risk shield is stronger with a human consultant over an AI. Carpenters blaming their tools, and all that.

@joannefriedman @dhinchcliffe Agreed, although having a human face / name involved when taking the advice goes wrong brings some value on its own. The twist will be a client saying "[consultant] told us!" and consultant saying "but [AI] told us!" at blame time... #ciochat

#CIOChat Q2: The classic consulting pyramid depends on junior-heavy leverage. If AI replaces that layer, what do you expect happens to delivery models, price, timelines? Are you seeing less people, new skills, lower-cost engagements, or the “Holy Grail”, value-based pricing?

@DoctahDean @privatefight @KyleBrandt The SEC of famousness?

@privatefight @KyleBrandt It means MORE than famous

“Wild” Everything is WILD. This is WILD! Woah, that’s WILD! It has lost its impact. Wild isn’t wild anymore.

ME: Where are you from? THEM: Holland. ME: *looking at map* But I don't-- THEM: Right here, where it says "Netherlands." ME: So that makes you? THEM: Dutch. It's like they're running a complicated sting operation on themselves.

@dhinchcliffe One big difference is the starting point - Retail was always a part of the manufacturer to consumer chain, but Agents are being added after direct-to-consumer tech was already in place. I wonder how that changes the road ahead.

@dhinchcliffe Now I am thinking about the parallels between Agents:APIs :: Retailers:Manufacturers. Economies of scale? Customer Insight? Brand Loyalty? Margin? Innovation? Lots of topics to consider.

The “API is the UI.” It is indeed. As agents do more and more interaction with our software for us, agentically, they must use APIs. The API, for AI, is literally the UI + it’ll be how work gets done. The real issue: Agents will disintermediate tech firms from their customers.