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Digital transformation #mindcandy 25 August 2025
The topics are you are the upgrade, velocity, silent data, AI, the AI vibe shift, no-code, human-adjacent consciousness, AI agents, and no-code in the military.
You are the upgrade
You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward (e-book)
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
“Velocity IS The ****ing Strategy”: What Citizen Development Means For AI-Enhanced Businesses
Citizen development is arguably the most practical strategy for discovering and scaling AI’s business value in the real world.
The Silent Data Crisis: Why Unstructured Data Is Costing Every Industry More Than They Think
Across industries, unstructured data management is no longer just a cost-saving tactic but a strategic enabler
AI isn’t just replacing tasks. It’s replacing the office, the manager, and maybe even the mission
A new study released by GoTo and Workplace Intelligence confirms something many of us have already started to feel: AI is no longer just a workplace tool. It’s becoming the workplace.
The AI vibe shift is upon us
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/22/business/ai-vibe-shift-nightcap
Is it too soon to declare August 2025 the start of the AI winter, or the AI correction, or the AI bubble bursting, or whatever slowdown metaphor you prefer, it is undeniable that a series of industry stumbles is making investors, businesses and customers do a double-take.
From no-code to know-nothing
https://www.techcentral.ie/from-no-code-to-know-nothing/
As information technology burrows ever deeper into our lives it is no bad thing to understand our tools well enough to shape them ourselves, rather than simply typing into a text field to ask the machine to do it for us.
Microsoft’s AI Leader Is Begging You to Stop Treating AI Like Humans
Mustafa Suleyman argues against thinking about AI as a kind of human-adjacent consciousness. AI is not human and does not possess a truly human consciousness. But the warp-speed advancement of generative AI is making that harder and harder to recognize.
Next Role for AI Agents: Recommending and Acting on Real-Time Choices
https://www.rtinsights.com/next-role-for-ai-agents-recommending-and-acting-on-real-time-choices/
Use of AI agents is transitioning from systems that learn from decisions to systems that learn to improve the decision environment itself.
TechNet Augusta: The Army’s Need for Low Code–Enabled, Data-Centric Platforms Grows
The military’s need to make that data actionable at the tactical edge requires a local capability with a simplistic user experience so warfighters can create apps on the fly. Enter low- or no-code
