Listen to this article: I don’t think I’ve ever seen a technology develop and expand and proliferate this quickly. Remember back in the ancient days of 2023 when it was pretty much just ChatGPT? Did you notice the following year when Microsoft added Copilot into many of its products and Read more
Listen to this article: In the beginning there was language, and from language evolved grammar, and grammar begat sentence diagrams. It seems like the portion of the population that diagrammed sentences in school is like the portion of the population who are Korean War veterans. They’re still around but their Read more
Listen to this article: We walked through the door of an otherwise unremarkable industrial park suite into a gymnasium-sized room packed full of shelves. The shelves were packed floor-to-ceiling with banker boxes. The banker boxes were packed full of documents. Back in the early 1990s, two large aerospace companies got Read more
Listen to this article: In September and October, Salesforce, Bosch, Nestle, Target, UPS, and Amazon announced layoffs totaling nearly 100,000 positions. The rationales most often given were workforce reduction and AI. The 14,000 cuts at Amazon got particular attention. After all, Amazon is considered a technology leader and a bellwether Read more
Listen to this article: Last week I started looking at Artificial Intelligence from the perspective of the Enterprise Architect. Best practices covered included: maintaining a clear line of sight from the AI deliverable to a business objective and its tangible business value; being realistic in your expectations, especially with what Read more
Listen to this article: This past week I spent some time thinking about AI from the perspective of an Enterprise Architect. Is the Enterprise Architect also the Agentic AI Architect (or just AI Architect)? Perhaps in some organizations, but I would assert that AI Architect is more analogous to an Application Read more
I have long held that the main reason that corporate adoption of Artificial Intelligence has been slow is because leadership would necessarily have to accept the fact that sometimes the AI would be wrong. The demand for AI has always been strong, but the demand for “deterministic AI” has been Read more
Today I start teaching introductory computer science at Rhodes College. It’s the first course in the computer science major sequence, but it is also a recommended elective for non-majors. I’ve been told to expect non-majors to make up as much as three-quarters of the class. It goes without saying that Read more
I enjoy puzzles. Especially the constraint-satisfaction kind like they have on the qualitative section of the GRE. I have one of those page-a-day puzzle calendars that I work each morning while brushing my teeth. Here’s one from a couple weeks ago: Insert the letters A to J, one per square, Read more
The ink is barely dry on Generative AI and AI Agents, and now we have a new next big thing: Agentic AI Sounds impressive. By the time this article comes out, there’s a good chance that Agentic AI will be in the rear-view mirror and we’ll all be chasing after Read more