@SyedFahad_1435 @Flipkart@VietjetIndia@DGCAIndia@MoCA_GoI@RamMNK@vipinkumarIAS Bottom line seems 2 b hunting 4 da cheapest option & being burnt. Cheap airlines, cheap tix platform. One should question, why is it cheap? I ALWAYS search on multiple platforms and then book from airlines' website as my travel plans are more precious than saving a few bucks.
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.
@Clifford98506 Am I the only one who already sees 4 headlights on a 2 lane road facing me?
Yeah, FSD worked and I do use it pretty much daily, but wouldn't a human driver slow down much before that?
@MicroStaticSA @MattP1Gallagher Exactly P3 would have been the worst result with a better chance for P2 and a hope to defend P1. Pit stop seems so unnecessary where P3 becomes the best possible position
@MattP1Gallagher Not a fan of his almost over the line driving in several instances, but wow!! This was beyond perfection. We must be lucky to watch such a talent in our lifetime.
@formularacers_ So we ignore the car set-ups and the high stakes bet of going with low down force? I'm not questioning Max, his lap was 🔥🔥.
But can't turn a blind eye to a stark set-up difference either.
@MattP1Tommy Some drivers like Max and Russell used mediums for the Q3. McLaren and Ferrari didn't use the mediums. Soft is clearly not a race tire. What do you think about the strategies?