Field Notes

You’re Measuring What AI Replaces. You’re Not Measuring What It Creates.

A recent HBR piece on AI transformation got me thinking – not because I disagreed with it, but because it stopped one step short of where the real problem...

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The Spreadsheet Isn’t Wrong. It’s Just Incomplete.

I’ve been trying to make a list of everything AI has made possible for me in the last three months. I keep losing count. Here’s what I’ve got so...

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GM cut 600 IT jobs to hire AI engineers. That’s only half of a strategy.

GM just laid off roughly 600 salaried IT workers, more than 10 percent of its IT department, and is replacing them with AI-native engineers. People who build AI systems,...

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Your Engineers Aren’t Resisting AI. They’re Questioning the Rationale.

Most AI adoption failures I see aren’t technical. They’re change management failures wearing a technology costume. This question is playing out every day in every organization – and the...

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