Sometimes, there are moments that never make the news. No headlines. No hashtags. No awards. Just ordinary people doing ordinary things that quietly tell you a society is changing. During my recent visit to India, I went to the mall to clock my steps and escape the peak-summer heat. As my tracker counted my steps,…
In a recent discussion with a CTO, I asked about the metrics they used for measuring the impact of AI on their business. He shared a slide that had been presented to the executive team as a bragging right that boldly claimed 87% Adoption of the company’s new AI co-pilot. When I pressed him with…
Back in the mid-1990s, I was part of a small team at Intel that worked on the project called WIINGS that managed indirect inventory and was critical to their factory stores. We were told that the ERP rollout will replace our software within a year. Decades later, its core logic still runs, largely untouched, while…
In one of our annual leadership conferences at Intel, Diane Bryant, our then CIO, conducted a break-out session on out-of-the-box / lateral thinking. We were ~20 people in her session when she asked us all to write down the maximum number of use cases for a metal-wire hanger, you know the flimsy ones that you…
In case you have not yet caught on to the latest hype around AI, let me introduce you to the concept of vibe coding. It is popularized by Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher, whose credentials are impressive and therefore his tweet hit more than 4 million views. I show the snapshot of the actual tweet…
I often say, “Do not rush to judge, for life has not tested you yet”. During a recent discussion, a friend criticized someone’s character and I silently to repeated this to myself as a reminder. It took me back to the height of the #MeToo movement, when someone we knew was fired for having an…
AI agents are the new shiny toy, and it feels a lot like the LLM hype from two years ago. Plenty of ‘experts’ are now touting agents as the endgame of AI, the same way they once touted LLMs as the dawn of sentient machines. I recently read an article claiming a wave of unicorn…
The narrative is being repeated and recycled and has taken a life of its own, just like all narratives do. You will be replaced by AI or You will be replaced by someone who knows how to use AI. In essence, you’re screwed unless you jump onto the AI bandwagon! The fear mongering will result…
The year 2025 should see rapid adoption of AI within the enterprise. The ones that plan to continue with wait-and-watch strategy will end up watching their competitors eat their lunch in market share. The time to plunge into AI is NOW! The biggest barrier to introducing new technology in corporate is trying to figure out…
Back in Feb 2023 when ChatGPT hype was at its peak, I was asked about what I thought about this thing called artificial intelligence. My immediate response was that this is the beginning of dumbification of humanity. As AI continues to make inroads into our lives, my opinion on this has gotten stronger over the…