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We are automating the work people learn on
Florian Herrengt wrote about an engineer who was asked where the data in his own system comes from. The answer was: "Hmm... actually I don't know. Let me ask Claude." He published that on 11 August, about his own trade,
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Your Heaviest AI Users Can't Change Anything
New enterprise AI data shows your most intensive users are your most junior people, which is exactly why all that usage produces so little redesign.
We have priced the hard part at zero
On SAP's second-quarter call in July, Christian Klein said the AI transformation "doesn't require massive operational investments like the cloud transformation did". I have read that sentence several times. A large Europ
An agent only runs the company you already have
MIT FutureTech went through the annual filings of every S&P 500 company and found that only 11% had AI deeply integrated into their business processes in 2025. Up from 5% in 2022. It is moving, but slowly. I have been th
The Coaching Job Nobody Funded
Your AI budget buys seats; the actual skill-building happens in a manager's unpaid, uncounted hour. Fund the hour, not the licence.
282,000 prompts is not a result
Champion networks are the best capability-building vehicle companies have ever built, and they are being spent on tool adoption instead of workflow redesign.
AI Made The Job Bigger
Everyone expected AI to shrink work. Inside real companies the job is getting bigger, because nobody redesigned the role the tool landed in.
We are all a little hooked on the model
Since Claude Fable 5 was approved for use again, I have been building roughly five times more than I did before. Anthropic keeps extending my access in small steps, a few days here, a week there, and today the window was
Keeping your experts is not enough
A study in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology followed experienced endoscopists, people with two thousand procedures or more behind them, after their clinics brought in AI detection tools. Within a few months, thei
NGOs have the most to gain from AI, and the most to lose
I spent a good part of last week in a room with several NGOs, brought in to teach them AI. We got to the tools. But the question that kept surfacing was not how to write a better prompt. It was simpler and harder than th
We are automating the apprenticeship
A Harvard study came out recently that I think deserves a lot more attention than it got. In firms that started using AI, the hiring of junior people fell by 7.7% over six quarters, while senior hiring kept rising. Nobod
The scarce skill isn't prompting
The OECD spent years studying AI and skills and published the summary on 5 June. Fewer than 1% of workers need advanced AI skills. Not ten percent. Less than one. I have read that line about thirty times, because almost
The value leaks at the top
Forty-two percent of people using AI at work now save at least a full day a week. Two-thirds of them are never told what to do with that time. The second number is the real story of the past seven days.
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