I spent two days at the CIO AI Summit in Munich this September, attending every single session. What I witnessed wasn’t the typical vendor-driven optimism you’d expect at a tech…
The conversation about artificial intelligence usually gravitates toward spectacular disasters. We worry about superintelligence seizing control or mass unemployment destabilizing society. Derek Thompson’s widely discussed essay, “You Have 18 Months,”…
For the past two years, the world of software development has been defined by a single, seismic question: What is the true impact of AI? The initial data was puzzling.…
For nearly a decade, Silicon Valley’s mantra has been clear: dematerialize everything. Transform atoms into bits. Move fast and break things, but preferably break them in code where the damage…
Last Tuesday, I watched a founder friend upload his entire company’s documentation into NotebookLM. Twenty seconds later, two AI podcasters were discussing his business model with the kind of insight…
Every teacher knows this moment: A student struggling with Newton’s laws while their classmate breezes through. The traditional response? “Read it again.” But what if the problem isn’t the student’s…
Last week, during a conversation with a CTO friend in Berlin, he casually mentioned his AI assistant had just negotiated a 30% discount on their cloud infrastructure bill. Not him,…
We’ve all seen it. Maybe it was a university colleague whose textbook looked more yellow than white, nearly every paragraph aggressively highlighted. Or perhaps it was the person in the…
During a family trip in San Francisco, I experienced a paradigm shift not in the cloud, but on the asphalt. It was a visceral lesson that the future often arrives…
Enjoyed listening to a recent podcast with Antje Heimsoeth (advisor to many DAX executives) talking about the current events. Had, could, would – this does not help us in the…