Aâdila Ben

Software Engineer, UX/UI Designer, and Illustrator.

[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.

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

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[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

@soufien_msd All the best 😃

[Aïcha GUEDIRA @AichaGuedira]

It was a blast to meet you and have you 🥰🥰Thanks for coming and see you next edition!!!! 🚀🚀🚀

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

Just attended the first #TechWrex #Meetup ! Learned from Yassine Chbani about speeding up Android app builds by 10x and from @AdilBaaj about Hexagonal modules. I also met some awesome people, including @AichaGuedira. Thanks to the organizers for this amazing event

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

What a week! 🎉 Presented the Nabady project at GITEX in Marrakech and ended with a great JS meeting in Casablanca today. 🚀 #GITEXAFRICA2024 #JSCONF

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

This was my first Dev meeting, and it was great! tysm for the opportunity.

[Ayoub Intel 🧐 @alouane_med]

اكبر مبتاب د جافاسكريبت في المغرب بدا دابا

[Ayoub Intel 🧐 @alouane_med]

اكبر مبتاب د جافاسكريبت في المغرب بدا دابا

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

#DAY2
Had so much fun today, even more than yesterday! It was a pleasure meeting @MIduoad. 😄 #GITEXAFRICA #GitexAfrica2024

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

@Klurtyy Kan 3lik tji

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

We are here #GitexAfrica2024

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

@mahmoudfettal Coming tomorrow!

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

@AichaGuedira No problem✌️😁! I hope so too.

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

@MIduoad Can't agree more!!

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

tech interviewers watching you pretend like you've never seen the problem before

[“paula” @paularambles]

there will never be a more perfect pic

[Aâdila Ben @AdilaDev]

@Hmellahiii All the time :'c