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[Pohla @Pohlaa]

The OpenAI situation summarized by Silicon Valley:

[Pohla @Pohlaa]

@Dreams44 Not only is it not in uptown, its for a remodel like they did in north loop. We should be celebrating the few successful businesses that make living in this awful city tolerable.

[Pohla @Pohlaa]

@NortonMpls @donut_team_six Acknowledging that rampant car break-ins are a problem under your photo of a $30 burger with your dog in a stroller is about as Minneapolis as it gets LOL

[Pohla @Pohlaa]

@mcguirereports Here's the map for single family homes priced between $200-300K. Reasonable starter home price, roughly $1,800/m total payment on the high end. No idea why people wouldn't want to buy these!

[Pohla @Pohlaa]

What it felt like to play Forza for the first time after growing up on NFS

[Daniel Valente 🏎️ @F1GuyDan]

F1 made a compilation to show why Charles Leclerc was handed a 20-second penalty for leaving the track without justifiable reason

[Pohla @Pohlaa]

@hasanthehun Eat gallons of shit you fucking plus-sized homonculus

[Pohla @Pohlaa]

@Dexerto Unfortunate, really liked that guy!

[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.