Dom Shakal

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@realEstateTrent Solid question. I've encountered similar situations in the past and asked around about it. Some contractors have told me that for the crazy high bids, those companies don't actually want the job (for whatever reason- too much other work for them; job too small; time/value of $)

[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.

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@xoyanks Same. Picture is fine but audio is nothing but static.

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@MikerophoneNFL Same. Picture is fine but audio is nothing but static.

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@tallmetommy @Andercot Then dashes give it away

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@metaplexmovies Follow you. Appreciate your posts. Mamdani's win is Trump's biggest victory yet. It is coming.

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@robertlasagna1 WTF. Bot indeed.

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@statusisdown Yes. I get a "this site can't be reached" error message when attempting to access their website on my laptop.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Whenever someone says to be cool, this is all I can think of

[Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway]

Spot the odd one out

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

This monster tornado has been on the ground for over 70 miles and more than 2 hours, crossing the entire Galveston Bay. It is now at the doorstep of Port Arthur, Texas.

The tornado began near Alvin, Texas, just south of Houston. Insane.

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@mattlanza Shizz is changing and the baseline level of weather-event severity in Southeast Texas is increasing.

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@dryared @netflix Yes. Since the beginning. Disappointing.

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@billbarnwell Seriously,why wasn't he already on an NFL roster?

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@RealSkipBayless Impressive? This is impressive? Blatant LAR face mask penalty at the end, ref literally staring right at it, and the flag is somehow swallowed.

Followed you for a long time my man.

Pero ... adiós.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

Apparently passing for negative yardage is literally the same as passing for 3 yards per attempt when calculating QB rating. Great stat

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Rest in Peace Lord Vader

[Inferam @InferamAI]

Where has this been all my life?

[Dom Shakal @DomShakal]

@mattlanza I've often considered this as well - is this what it felt like from the mid 60s to the mid 70s (basically JFK's death to Nixon's resignation)

[Tom Campbell @thomasgcampbell]

@mattlanza