Back in the mid-1990s, I was part of a small team at Intel that worked on the project called WIINGS that managed indirect inventory and was critical to their factory stores. We were told that the ERP rollout will replace our software within a year. Decades later, its core logic still runs, largely untouched, while… Read More »
In one of our internal annual leadership conferences at Intel, Diane Bryant, our then CIO, conducted a break-out session on out-of-the-box / lateral thinking. We were ~20 people in her session when she asked us all to write down the maximum number of use cases for a metal-wire hanger, you know the flimsy ones that… Read More »
In case you have not yet caught on to the latest hype around AI, let me introduce you to the concept of vibe coding. It is popularized by Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher, whose credentials are impressive and therefore his tweet hit more than 4 million views. I show the snapshot of the actual tweet… Read More »
I often say, “Do not rush to judge, for life has not tested you yet”. During a recent discussion, a friend criticized someone’s character and I silently to repeated this to myself as a reminder. It took me back to the height of the #MeToo movement, when someone we knew was fired for having an… Read More »
The new shiny toy are AI agents. Reminds me of the LLM hype from about two years ago. Many ‘experts’ are now touting AI agents to be the endgame in AI, just like they were touting LLMs to be the rise of sentient machines. I was amused to read such an article claiming the rise… Read More »
The narrative is being repeated and recycled and is taking a life of its own, just like all narratives do. You will be replaced by AI or You will be replaced by someone who knows how to use AI. In essence, you’re screwed unless you jump onto the AI bandwagon! The fear mongering will result… Read More »
The year 2025 should see rapid adoption of AI within the enterprise. The ones that plan to continue with wait-and-watch strategy will end up watching their competitors eat their lunch in market share. The time to plunge into AI is NOW! The biggest barrier to introduce new technology in corporate is trying to figure out… Read More »
Back in Feb 2023 when ChatGPT hype was at its peak, I was asked about what I thought about this thing called artificial intelligence. My immediate response was that this is the beginning of dumbification of humanity. As AI continues to make inroads into our lives, my opinion on this has gotten stronger over the… Read More »
Published in 2005 The first part of this series can be read here and the second part in series can be read here. In this third and final part I will focus on leadership. While the government incentives can encourage innovation for the simple reason that it directly leads to profits, leadership is a different… Read More »
Published in 2005 This is the second in the three-part series. To read the first in series click here. In this article I will focus on encouraging innovation. On my way from hotel to the airport in Shanghai I pulled out the departure card and started filling in the details. I was able to fill it… Read More »