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Here’s a simple model for thinking about AI success in organizations.
How AI actually works. The inputs and outputs. The failure modes. You don’t need an expert-level sense of the m...
tl;dr:
AI does not eliminate complexity, coupling, coordination, uncertainty, or decay. But it can change the cost, speed, and feasibility of responding to them.
or:
AI does not work in the same way across different portfolio puzzles.
*...
This post is important. It is the introduction for a book that’ll I’ll probably never publish. Why? I already have! I’ve written it across countless TBM posts (multiple books worth), but have had trouble getting to the crux of it. Over the...
AI can be your scribe, your thought partner, data-stitcher, or your counselor.
And AI can be your consigliere, your spin doctor, or your propagandist.
Team superpowers.
Or Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
If a behavior is blocked by poor si...
My goodness. If I see another slide with a 2005-era SDLC diagram sprinkled with little AI logos and a bunch of words suggesting “the bottleneck has moved” or that this has all been figured out, when in reality every week there’s something n...
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Product development nut @Amplitude_HQ. I love wrangling complex problems/answering the why with qual/quant data. Writing at https://t.co/r1JgWT0NOs
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