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I Wasn't Trying to Kill the Monthly USB Drive

I Wasn't Trying to Kill the Monthly USB Drive

I Was Just Trying to Get Home From Austin

Enterprise Apps & AI

"Your World. Your Imagination." (And an $800,000 Line Item Nobody Saw Coming.)

"Your World. Your Imagination." (And an $800,000 Line Item Nobody Saw Coming.)

The strangest project I've ever been part of didn't use new technology. It used a fifteen-year-old video game — it worked, other teams wanted it, and it still didn't survive the budget cycle.

Field Notes

The $12M Fix Our Own Team Asked For ... Then Almost Killed.

The $12M Fix Our Own Team Asked For ... Then Almost Killed.

Four issues on AI projects that failed. Here's one that worked, and the group that nearly stopped it wasn't the one you'd guess.

Field Notes

Lucky #13? 88% Say They Have the Talent.  22% Are Paying to Build It.

Lucky #13? 88% Say They Have the Talent. 22% Are Paying to Build It.

Three issues of AI failures. One bill nobody paid.

Frameworks

The AI Got It Right. We Couldn't Tell If It Was Lucky.

The AI Got It Right. We Couldn't Tell If It Was Lucky.

We could check the answer. We couldn't check the reasoning.

Field Notes

Somebody Has to Own the Kill Switch. Almost Nobody Does.

Somebody Has to Own the Kill Switch. Almost Nobody Does.

Leadership