Wednesday, February 18

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The gap between AI demos and enterprise usage is wider than most people think
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The gap between AI demos and enterprise usage is wider than most people think

I work on AI deployment inside my company, and the gap between what AI looks like in a polished demo… and what actually happens in real life? I think about that a lot. Here’s what I keep running into. First, the tool access issue. Companies roll out M365 Copilot licenses across the organization and call it “AI adoption.” But nobody explains what people should actually use it for. It’s like handing everyone a Swiss Army knife and then wondering why they only ever use the blade. Without use cases, it just becomes an expensive icon in the ribbon. Then there’s the trust gap. You’ve got senior engineers and specialists with 20+ years of experience. They’ve built careers on judgment and precision. Of course they don’t blindly trust AI output and for safety-critical or compliance-heavy work, they...
Elon Musk Firms Enter Secret Pentagon Challenge for Voice-Based Drone Swarming Tech
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Elon Musk Firms Enter Secret Pentagon Challenge for Voice-Based Drone Swarming Tech

"Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its subsidiary xAI are joining a secretive US Department of Defense competition centered on a voice command and control tool that could deploy multiple autonomous systems. The project, launched in January with a $100-million budget and a six-month timeline, requires software that could coordinate unmanned swarming operations across the air and at sea, according to Bloomberg. The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit and its new Defense Autonomous Warfare Group under the US Special Operations Command are overseeing the competition. The contest will unfold in phases, starting with software development before advancing to live trials. SpaceX and xAI’s participation marks an expansion of Musk’s defense work into artificial intelligence-enabled weapons software, as th...
Looking for early testers for my competitive analysis tool (Claude needed currently)
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Looking for early testers for my competitive analysis tool (Claude needed currently)

I kept running into the same cycle: spend hours researching competitors, dump everything into a spreadsheet, present it once, never touch it again. 6 months later, start over. The problem isn't the analysis — it's the maintenance. So I built CompetitiveOS. The idea You only need to install a plugin in Claude and say: "Analyze our top 5 competitors in the AI education space" The agent researches each competitor across 10 dimensions (pricing, product, positioning, target audience, etc.) and writes everything into a structured database — with linked sources for every data point. Your own company sits at the center as the reference point. Every comparison is "us vs. them." And it doesn't stop at the initial analysis. Found a new article about a competitor? Just tell the agent: "I found this do...
It isn’t the tool, but the hands: why the AI displacement narrative gets it backwards
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It isn’t the tool, but the hands: why the AI displacement narrative gets it backwards

Responding to Matt Shumer's "Something Big Is Happening" piece that's been circulating. The pace of change is real, but the "just give it a prompt" framing is self-defeating. If the prompt is all that matters, then knowing what to build and understanding the problem deeply matters MORE. Building simple shit is getting commoditized, fine. But building complex systems and actually understanding how they work? That's becoming more valuable, not less. When anyone can spin up the easy stuff, the premium shifts to the people who can architect what's hard and debug what's opaque. We also need to separate "building software" from "building AI systems", completely different trajectories. The former may be getting commoditized. The latter is not. How we use this technology, how we shape it, what we ...
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