Agreed. Cal brought a great balance. I don't even think of Ed as 'angry' so much as a 'scorned lover' archetype - I suspect he actually deeply loves technology but hates the lying, hypocrisy, and cons of the industry.
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For example, Microsoft 365 Copilot. A company might get a significant discount on the price per user for that SKU. What does that translate to? OpenAI is the actual brain behind it. So who ends up getting the money at the end?
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/27/the-next-phase-o...
OpenAI needs Microsoft's infra for training and market penetration. MS needs something AI to slap onto their products until they develop their own in-house.
Now, whether it's actually necessary or not for an enterprise is a question. There's a lot of FOMO spending. Maybe 5-10% of your workforce are programmers that need great AI. The rest of the admin, finance, other people? TBD.
What we're seeing across the board is every software company tossing AI onto their name or sales pitch and no one understanding what that actually means. But we will spend money on it because of FOMO.
I really question if we're reaching the end of the hype cycle to the point. I wish I were brave enough to put money on it. It feels like there was a command from up top to 'do something with AI' and leadership is scambling for some resume-building projects vs doing the hard work they should've done the past two years at a people and process level.
Sure but also throw in whether that driver is staring at their phone, distracting by something else, etc. I have been a skeptic of all this stuff for a while but riding in a Waymo in heavy fog changed my mind when questioning how well I or another driver would've done at that time of day and with those conditions.
Edit: Not 'allowed' but people do it constantly. Regular drivers, delivery drivers, city workers, construction trucks, etc. There may be laws but very little enforcement.
I still find it fascinating that we developed this human system, with expectations that are still in play, even if some aspects become less and less relevant, it's still an important tool beyond being dependent on technology. Same with lending libraries. A few things we should cherish that have real ethics in this lets-monetize-everything world.
Many of the writers on the show have only ever worked in show businesses, which is its own mutation of work culture. Not many have actual worked in stereotypical corporate work situations.
Mike Judge (Office Space, Silicon Valley, etc) probably comes closest having started in corporate life and made a transition.
It's only been in effect for a short while, then we had COVID. It took them two decades to even get it live.
Some state licenses don't expire for 10 years. Americans will avoid trips to the DMV until it's absolutely necessary to go. YMMV on if your local one is well-run and efficient or a madhouse with long wait times.
- What is a 'society'? Is it like a community that pays for upkeep and has other advantages or just a name for an area?
- Do tell about Calgary!
Was there any literature or other findings that you came across that ended up clicking and working for you that you can recommend to us?
It really depends. We have a good CSM. But s/he has to defer to CSM's on other teams for more specialized knowledge. Any problems there have been far, far down my list of issues with that company.
Adobe's leverage is big, especially in creative industries so they can keep coasting.
Because most of the corporate world is mediocre. Employees put up with a lot of BS every day, Acrobat and PDFs are just the icing on the cake. And they're risk adverse. "This is what I know".
It's like when the complaints Windows and Office come around (for decades). People got used to it enough, and don't have to pay for it, so why change.
All periods can be replaced by ? if you want...I'm merely speculating having been in all sizes of companies by now. :)
Tariffs maybe?
>Disney's internal systems for something like this are a hodgepodge of the Hulu, D+/Bamtech, old corporate disney, and some bits sent out to SaaS. There's been multiple layers of layoffs and service ownership changes since the pandemic. I don't think the org would be able to rate limit by faking crashes if it tried.
Finance bros and execs love M&A because they can hire a consultant to do all the hard work and get a nice paycheck yet they really suck for the little people and those trying to keep the lights on. Good luck out there.
Maybe one day we'll figure out this anti-trust thing.
10s of millions on Adobe - admin side craps out all the time, terrible outsourced support (easy to escalate past them but still annoying that we sometimes have to start there)
10s of millions on Microsoft - Laissez-faire attitude about when they will update stuff during renewals and true-ups. Not specific date. Little help.
Broadcom - PE play (as we know from Broadcom) to squeeze every penny out. Have been through several account managers now. They won't sell through VARs anymore, only direct, and to get anything beyond VCF you have to be on a very special list that supposedly the CEO personally approves (which is beyond mind-boggling).
Starting to see some post production software be licensed based on having limited amount of contiguous time zones which is also crazy for a global company
Note: Media and healthcare industries may be SOL because there are lots of content and cybersec 'requirements' for having private clouds. Curious what others in those industries are doing
A lot of it is the cost of doing business. We'll see how it goes when MS moves to the consumption model they're proposing.