Articles for category: Delivery

What AI Gives Zero Thought to

AI does not care about optics or politics. It only cares about delivery. AI does not care about how you are feeling today. It only cares about starting the task, making adjustments to the task and finishing the task. AI does not care about who is at the water cooler and what they were talking about. It cares about who it needs to get information from for the next project to be successful. AI isn’t perfect, and it does get it wrong, but the thing it gets right is focusing on the task, what is being delivered to the end

AI talking to Humans talking to AI

AI-masked conversations to humans are massively on the rise. A number of times over the past month, I’ll get… “Well, Claude says…” “Well, Copilot gave me this…” “Well, here is what Gemini came up with…” Yes, of course, that is what it said, but what is your spin? What is your input? What is your context to the issue at hand? Give me your flavour and thoughts around what AI came back with. Either that or just pull me into the chat with your AI.

I Don’t Know is the Best Answer

I’ve been running a number of interviews lately, and I’m amazed at how everyone has some type of answer to a question. And sadly, in most cases they are wrong; they are bad answers, and if I’m feeling curious that day, I might keep poking and prodding to see how much I can make your AI hallucinate during the interview. The best candidate I interviewed over the past week asked to use a pencil and paper to draw out the problem and answered a few questions with “I don’t know”. Everything else was solid; he didn’t know it all. No

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

A Blistering Pace

That’s how fast it feels you need to go each and every day in order to rise above the fray. But the pace, the consistent pace, the work always being delivered – that’s what matters more. Getting there is good; getting there with value, with scenarios and work thought out – much better. Find your new race and set a better pace then you did before.

Get Out of the Way

Let your team work. You don’t need to ask them every day what they did – you need to trust them. You don’t need to check in every few moments – you need to give them time. You don’t need to prompt them for updates – you need to wait for them to come to you. They haven’t forgotten about you; they are trying to work so they can give it to you. They are not an AI Agent, so stop sending them prompts. Get out of their way, let them work; I swear you’ll be amazed.