Matt Connolly

Words don’t matter, you are what your actions show

[Matt Connolly @CodeMonkeyMC]

@nytimes @TheAthletic The voters decided this before the season even started

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@waitmaya 10°

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@CJustin3301 @webhostingtalk @Rackspace Same here.. @rackspace has destroyed years of trust and good reputation with a single email

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@FF_TravisM @Cockadoodle_Boo @T3Bracketology That has not been true in my market for a paywalled news website at all.. If you have any tips on getting $20 CPM, would love to hear it

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@Cockadoodle_Boo @T3Bracketology Because ads don't pay much at all.
For most sites, you'll need to show 1000 ads to make $1 unless you have good sponsors.. then you might get $10 to show 1000 ads if you get lucky

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

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.

[Matt Connolly @CodeMonkeyMC]

@__aneishaa @promo2fly @laniegracehoops Literally first google result…
https://t.co/Zs42dz2lvR

[Matt Connolly @CodeMonkeyMC]

Dear @peacock, for the love of God, please stop making us watch this “coverage will resume shortly” loop every 2 minutes! Don’t you have some commercials for your shows? At least make a few different versions for us!

[Matt Connolly @CodeMonkeyMC]

@SamClay2020 @HeavensFX In what way?

[Matt Connolly @CodeMonkeyMC]

@VanLathan Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, Dan Marino, Barry Sanders, and Randy Moss are all trash based by this standard

[Matt Connolly @CodeMonkeyMC]

@Jay_3shifty I would go with a camera like a canon EOS R10, and grab a couple lenses… something in the 16-35mm range for solo podcasts and another one with zoom to take to games.
A softbox lighting kit for sure

[Matt Connolly @CodeMonkeyMC]

@VanLathan

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@cbrennansports This is false, i bought my tickets before the injury, will be sitting in row 15, and paid under $250 per ticket

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@dadmann_walking @TylerKluver This sounds like a challenge for you haha!

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@svnrnns Apple Basic

[Matt Connolly @CodeMonkeyMC]

@CFDevelop The “Mandrill” service through MailChimp has been very reliable for me for SMTP

[Matt Connolly @CodeMonkeyMC]

@danielcranney I'm using FileZilla right now...

[Matt Connolly @CodeMonkeyMC]

@natmiletic Actually, I'm this old

[TH Sports @THsportsfeed]

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