NEW EPISODE: @jack & @roelofbotha unpack @blocks 40% staff cut and rebuilding the entire company as a mini-AGI. This isn’t “use AI to make people more productive.” It’s making the company itself the intelligence. If you’re a founder or operator wondering what work looks like in the next 5 years… this is the episode. The evolution looks like: • Manager mode = Pyramid 🔺 (command & control) • Founder mode = Flat ➖(founders decide fast) • Dorsey mode = Circle 🔵 w/ AI at the center, humans at the edge, and decisions flow from customer inputs → AI → humans steering it I’ve tried killing org charts before. Brutally hard. But we never had these tools. This is rewriting the CEO playbook for the AI era. Buckle up. 00:00 Existential Dread & Hope 02:56 AI Replaces Hierarchy 07:22 Block’s New Three Roles 26:47 Flattening the Company, Fast 35:23 Getting the Board to Buy-In, Fast 36:50 Building a Great Board 41:29 Founder CEO Lessons 48:18 Second Acts & Conviction 56:22 Timeless CEO Traits
The LangSmith Signal: Azure's share of OpenAI traffic grew nearly 4x in under 3 months. We're sharing how devs are building agents, by the numbers. While most orgs started by connecting directly to OpenAI, over the past 10 weeks we've watched Azure's share of that traffic grow from 8% to 29%. We've analyzed this trend via LangSmith Observability data across more than 6.7 billion agent runs. Our hypothesis: 💡 Early adopters moved fast and went direct, but the enterprise wave is now arriving in force 💡 Azure gives teams the compliance, security, and procurement infrastructure they already have in place 💡 Azure traffic 4x-ing in 10 weeks likely indicates AI development is maturing quickly
We're partnering with Slack to give SlackBot a voice. Powered by ElevenAgents, teams can now automate workflows, generate natural-sounding audio, and interact with information more intuitively, all within Slack. Slack (@SlackHQ) Your AI investment is only as good as its access. ⚡️ We’ve turned Slackbot into the orchestrator for your entire enterprise. Agentforce agents? Connected. 🤖 6,000+ AppExchange tools? Integrated. 🛠️ Productivity? Unlocked. 🔓 Trusted data, apps, and agents, all in one conversation. — https://nitter.net/SlackHQ/status/2039049928228401193#m
Yeah, I agree. Plus two years from now Robotaxis from a number of companies, including Tesla, will be in many neighborhoods. I seriously doubt I'll buy another car to put in my garage again. Waymo customers tell me that they never will buy one again.
You can say your CTO lead is not doing his/ her job. > Show proof and suggest replacements. You can feedback that the core team is missing. > Replace them. Don’t complain. You do it. Lead it with the community.
Sam Altman predicted in 2024 that a one-person billion-dollar company "would have been unimaginable without A.I., and now it will happen." He just emailed the NYT saying he won a bet with tech CEO friends over when it would arrive, and that he "would like to meet the guy." The
A first-of-its-kind study from MIT measures how successful AI is in completing thousands of tasks done by workers in the US economy. Across these real-world tasks, they found that AI capabilities are improving quickly, but performance is rising smoothly: bit.ly/3Q1JQZD [Translated from EN to English]
What do successful deployments of AI have in common? It was awesome working with Elisa Pereira and @AGraylin on this research. We studied 51 companies and summarized the results. Alvin has a nice summary below. Check out digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/… for the full report. Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) New Research💡: “The #Enterprise #AI Playbook — Lessons from 51 Successful Deployments” Excited to share new research from Stanford @DigEconLab, I co-authored with @erikbryn and Elisa Pereira . We spent 5 months interviewing executives across 41 organizations, 9 industries, and 7 countries — focusing exclusively on AI deployments that actually delivered measurable value. Not hype. Not predictions. What’s working right now, and why. A few findings that challenged even our assumptions: The hard part isn’t the AI. 77% of the toughest challenges were invisible costs — change management, data quality, process redesign. Technology was consistently described as the easiest part. Same use case, wildly different timelines. One company deployed AI customer support in weeks. Another took years. Same models. The difference was always the #organization — its #leadership, processes, and willingness to fail. #Agentic AI works — but most firms haven’t tried it yet. Only 20% of our cases were agentic, but they delivered 71% median gains vs. 40% for high-automation. This gap will widen fast. The model is increasingly a #commodity. For 42% of implementations, model choice was fully interchangeable. The durable advantage is in orchestration, data, and process — not the foundation model. With productivity increase, headcount #reduction is common (45%), but not the majority outcome. Redeployment, hiring avoidance, and acceleration strategies accounted for 55% of cases.🚨 The window for experimentation is closing. This is no longer a question of whether AI delivers value. It’s whether organizations can evolve fast enough to capture it — and whether leaders will take responsibility for smoothing the transition for workers and communities along the way. Full report (free): digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/… @StanfordHAI — https://nitter.net/AGraylin/status/2039729157676921185#m
How is @Salesforce’s Agentforce impacting government?
AI in the public sector has moved from hesitation to execution. Agents are now live and reducing costs, improving service delivery, and handling millions of citizen interactions. #sponsored
How is @Salesforce’s Agentforce impacting government? AI in the public sector has moved from hesitation to execution. Agents are now live and reducing costs, improving service delivery, and handling millions of citizen interactions. #sponsored The bigger shift is from reactive systems to proactive, personalized government. This is a redefinition of how government serves citizens: piped.video/EKH6cmeJC3E #AI #GovAI #Agentforce #Missionforce #SalesforcePartner
