Tristan Kromer #BlackLivesMatter

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94% of employees know generative AI. 1% of leaders say they're mature on deployment. The payoff isn't there. kromatic.com/blog/why-ai-ma…

"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." (Joanna Maciejewska) Hook the chore, not the craft.

When your company rolled out an AI tool, did anyone actually use it? Or did people find creative ways to look like they did? kromatic.com/blog/why-ai-ma…

@WithWoz1 Is there a way to turn of the "thinking" prompts the plugin changes? I'm not enjoying the puns.

Who Should Own the AI Budget—and Why This Is a Terrible Question – WeAreOutcome weareoutcome.co/blog/who-shoul…

The cheapest way to debug an AI agent is a Latin phrase. When my chief-of-ops agent stops saying _festina lente_, the persona has washed out. kromatic.com/blog/why-my-ag…

"A memory the agent has to remember to look up isn't memory." Four design choices separate production agentic memory from a markdown file. kromatic.com/blog/agentic-m…

When your AI agent makes a decision in one session, does it remember WHY next week? How are you handling memory across agent sessions right now? kromatic.com/blog/agentic-m…

Claude hallucinated that we'd worked for the Austrian Federal Forestry Service. Completely false.\n\nThat's why every fact in our memory system now requires a citation. No source = assertion, not fact.\n\nkromatic.com/blog/agentic-m…

@davidgu Please stop sending fucking physical spam mail.

We launched 18 million EC2 instances last month. 10 things you didn’t know about the EC2 API, part 2. Fact: AWS's code path for booting new EC2 instances is buggy. When you boot a lot (e.g. 10,000s) of EC2 instances you often see failures with Server.InternalError

Harvard + Microsoft studied orgs with hundreds of active AI deployments. Productivity gains "remain trapped inside individual workflows." The bottleneck isn't the tech. It's org design. kromatic.com/blog/stop-putt…

If your CEO is still presenting AI as a standalone board update... has AI actually changed how your company operates? Or is it still a special project with a slide deck?

Only 5-6% of companies report significant value from AI despite broad deployment. The gap isn't technology. It's practice. (McKinsey/BCG 2025)

How we use AI matters more than whether we use it.

Most of us are using a Ferrari to drive to the mailbox. Six levels of AI adoption, from Bystander to Architect. kromatic.com/blog/ai-adopti…

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