Alaa Fathala Mohamed @AlaaFathala - Twitter Profile

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

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Alaa Fathala Mohamed @AlaaFathala

5 months ago

@alfageeh9 سخيف

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Ahmad Dakka

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5 months ago

الكاجو - سكيتش جميل جدًا عن ثقافة الاستهلاك..

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Alaa Fathala Mohamed @AlaaFathala

6 months ago

@alrawahitalal @dr_alrawahi أنا مهتم

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فواز اللعبون 🇸🇦

@fawaz_dr

6 months ago

«لو أمطَرَتْ ذَهَباً مِنْ بَعْدِما ذَهَبا لا شيءَ يَعدِلُ في هذا الوجودِ أبا» للشاعر حسين العبدالله

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HH Sheikh Mohammed

@HHShkMohd

7 months ago

الإخوة والأخوات، كما جرت العادة كل عام للاحتفاء بالعقول العربية ضمن جائزة نوابغ العرب وبعد تلقي آلاف الترشيحات… نعلن اليوم الفائز بجائزة نوابغ العرب عن فئة الهندسة والتكنولوجيا لعام 2025، البروفيسور عباس الجمل من مصر، أستاذ هيتاشي في كلية الهندسة بجامعة ستانفورد، قدّم إسهامات علم��ة رائدة في نظرية معلومات الشبكات التي وضعت الأساس للعديد من الشبكات الرقمية الحديثة حول العالم. ساهم البروفيسور عباس الجمل في تطوير مصفوفات البوابات القابلة للبرمجة (FPGA) ومستشعرات الصور CMOS المستخدمة في الهواتف الذكية، وأسهمت أعماله في تطوير التقنيات الداعمة لأنظمة الاستشعار الرقمية والحوسبة والاتصالات. نشر أكثر من 230 بحثاً علمياً، وكتابه نظرية معلومات الشبكات يُعد مرجعاً عالمياً لطلبة الهندسة والتكنولوجيا، وتستفيد من أبحاثه كبرى الشركات التقنية حول العالم. نبارك للبروفيسور عباس الجمل فوزه… ونبارك لمصر وللعالم العربي هذا النبوغ الذي يثبت للعالم أن أ��تنا لا تستهلك التقنيات فقط، بل تملك العقول القادرة على صناعتها وقيادة مستقبلها العلمي... عقول تنتظر من يحتفي بها… ويمنحها المنصة التي تستحق.