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Digital transformation #mindcandy 20 June 2025
The topics are accelerated artificial intelligence, developer patterns, AI as a core infrastructure, visual AI, writing for AI, data architecture, the human touch and you are the upgrade.
Accelerated Artificial Intelligence: Is your Data Infrastructure Ready for AI at the Point of Action?
Once a vision is set for how the data architecture can be enhanced for high-performance computing and edge AI, the next step is to identify which pieces can be bought, which are better used as a service, and which could be built by the enterprise.
Emerging Developer Patterns for the AI Era
https://a16z.com/nine-emerging-developer-patterns-for-the-ai-era/
Developers are moving past AI as just tooling and starting to treat it as a new foundation for how software gets built
CFOs Move AI From Science Experiment to Strategic Line Item
Businesses across industries are increasingly treating AI as a core infrastructure component, not a side experiment — allocating long-term budgets and focusing on tailored, purpose-built models rather than generic solutions
Why Scaling Visual AI in Industrial Operations Is So Hard
https://www.rtinsights.com/why-scaling-visual-ai-in-industrial-operations-is-so-hard/
Visual intelligence is emerging as one of the most compelling applications of AI in industrial operations.
What’s Happening to Reading?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/whats-happening-to-reading
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end. Should you write for AI or for people?
Rethinking Data Architecture: Inside the Rise of the Lakehouse Model
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/tech-news/headline-rethinking-data-architecture-inside-the-rise-of-the-lakehouse-model
The lakehouse paradigm features a multi-layered architecture that separates storage, metadata, and computation while ensuring seamless integration.
Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake
https://futurism.com/companies-replaced-workers-ai
The human touch remains irreplaceable in many interactions
You are the upgrade
You can order my latest book about books about AI, “You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward” here.
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
