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Digital transformation #mindcandy 8 May 2025
Today’s topics are AI, eat your own AI, predictive AI, coding, AI agents, data governance, distributed data management, and bring your own code (BYOC).
Bring your own code
We need to start thinking of AI as “normal”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/29/1115928/is-ai-normal/
We need to start differentiating between the rapid development of AI methods—the flashy and impressive displays of what AI can do in the lab—and what comes from the actual applications of AI, which in historical examples of other technologies lag behind by decades.
Why tech leaders need to ‘eat their own AI’
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/why-tech-leaders-need-to-eat-their-own-ai
Organisations too often focus on creating cutting-edge features over usability. AI tech teams need to use their own products every day to understand their users’ needs
Your data’s wasted without predictive AI. Here’s how to fix that
https://www.cio.com/article/3977588/your-data-is-wasted-without-predictive-ai.html
A playbook for leaders to master AI analytics, overcome scaling hurdles, control costs, empower teams, prove ROI and achieve competitive advantage.
Is Coding Still Worth It? Rethinking Time in the No-Code Era
https://startupbeat.com/is-coding-still-worth-it-rethinking-time-in-the-no-code-era/38272/
The economic value of knowing how to “code” has gone to zero. The fact of the matter is that everyone in the world now has (or soon will have) access to an army of increasingly brilliant coders in their pocket. One they can instantly summon whenever they want. And it’s basically free.
AI, Agents or AI Agents – What’s the Future?
https://www.techmahindra.com/insights/views/ai-agents-or-ai-agents-whats-future/
Who will lead the race for customer experience: AI, agents, or a combination of AI and agents? The answer is not so straightforward.
How data governance happens (and why it matters)
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2025/05/06/how-data-governance-happens-and-why-it-matters/
As data has evolved from methods for tabulating the greatness of states in the 19th century to algorithms empowering our personal, professional, and political reality, the term “governance” has drifted alongside it, with meanings shaped based on who controls data access and policy, and towards whose goals
The power of distributed data management for edge computing architectures
Edge computing has emerged as a distributed model that brings computation and data storage closer to the data source, enabling faster processing and reducing latency.
A new frontier in HPC with “Bring Your Own Code
https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/a-new-frontier-in-hpc-with-bring-your-own-code/
For too long, organizations have had to accept these prohibitive costs when adapting applications to traditional GPU and accelerator architectures. The answer is a new kind of accelerator architecture that embraces a “bring-your-own-code” (BYOC) approach.
