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Digital transformation #mindcandy 3 July 2025
The topics are AI-anxiety, IoT, gut instinct, semantic layers, context engineering, tech shaping business, expert generalists and you are the upgrade.
How AI is reshaping software and the builder role
AI-nxiety is real.
How IoT Came To Dominate Everyday Life
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/07/01/how-iot-came-to-dominate-everyday-life/
Billions of new devices are expected to come online. However, adding more devices to the mainstream does not secure the future of IoT if these connections are not also more resilient.
Is gut instinct dead in the age of AI?
https://www.raconteur.net/marketing-sales/marketing-gut-instinct-ai
Will the rise of AI and data analytics require marketers to relinquish some of their artistic freedom?
Agents, semantic layers among top data, analytics trends
Agentic AI will become so pervasive within the next 18 months that half of all business decisions will be assisted or executed by agents.
The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It’s Context Engineering
https://www.philschmid.de/context-engineering
The secret to building truly effective AI agents has less to do with the complexity of the code you write, and everything to do with the quality of the context you provide.
Show me the value: A CIO view on how tech can shape the business
Analog Devices CIO Nancy Avila charts a course to value through building trust between the business and IT.
Expert Generalists
https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html
As computer systems get more sophisticated we’ve seen a growing trend to value deep specialists. But we’ve found that our most effective colleagues have a skill in spanning many specialties. We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”
You are the upgrade
You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
