Gustavo (Gus) Valbuena
Director of Artificial Intelligence and People Analytics at Walmart. Founder and Host of PeopleBot. My why is simple: to re-image the people función (HR) so everyone and every business - thrives in an age powered by data and AI.
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TOKENS, FACTORIES, AND THE 3x BUDGET JUMP: 5 SURPRISING REALITIES OF AI IN 2028
The artificial intelligence landscape is currently navigating a profound reality check. In 2025, we were collectively obsessed with the “pilot phase” — a high-velocity era of experimentation and prompt-engineering playbooks. But as we look...
AI sped up your code. Nobody sped up your process.
“By 2026, every company at your funding level will have the same copilot. The ones pulling ahead will have done something harder: they will have dismantled the process they built to protect a bottleneck that no longer exists.”
In 2023, a m...
The End of the Headcount Era
For decades, corporate growth followed a simple rule: more revenue required more people.
That rule shaped workforce planning, budget cycles, operating models, leadership incentives, and investor narratives. Growth meant hiring. Scale meant...
The 50% Shock: Why Deep Expertise is Becoming a Corporate Liability
If you want to understand what is actually happening inside the modern enterprise right now, ignore the apocalyptic headlines about mass layoffs and terminator-style job replacement. The reality is far more complex, and frankly, much more e...
The Hidden Map of the AI Transition: Why "Exposure" Isn't the Whole Story
For years, the conversation surrounding Artificial Intelligence and the workforce has been dominated by a singular, suffocating dread: the “exposure” list. These rankings, which tally the percentage of a professional’s tasks a large languag...
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Director of Artificial Intelligence and People Analytics at Walmart. Founder and Host of PeopleBot. My why is simple: to re-image the people function (HR) so everyone and every business - thrives in an age powered by data and AI.
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