Praveen GS

Just another drop. Ctrl c+ctrl v's code for a living. wannabe nomad.

[Praveen GS @praveengs]

@jkhere4all സബാഷ്.. പ്രൗഡ് ഓഫ് യു മൈ ബോയ്..

[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.

[Praveen GS @praveengs]

@davefarley77 Necessity after failing the first ever pascal lab exam 😂

[Praveen GS @praveengs]

@jkhere4all Illa .. I thought your kitchen 😬

[Praveen GS @praveengs]

Among the clouds.

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

A brief history of physics

[Anderson East Kilbride CC @ekcricket]

Well done to our talented U10s team. They were amazing yesterday in a 6 a side indoor Kwik Cricket tournament. Great turnout, thanks to all the parents, @DaleCricket & @hillheadcc.

[Praveen GS @praveengs]

@jkhere4all Sathya katha.. 🤧🤧

[Anderson East Kilbride CC @ekcricket]

Last training session of 2023 for our u10s group. It has been a great year for them. Looking forward to 2024. 👏

[Praveen GS @praveengs]

@JamesThurgood8 I see you are having too much fun 😂

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Beautiful buildings don't just appear.

Like McEwan Hall, where the University of Edinburgh holds graduation ceremonies. It was paid for by a local businessman...

[Anderson East Kilbride CC @ekcricket]

Great to have First Minister @HumzaYousaf at Torrance house today. Decent bowling too!

[Praveen GS @praveengs]

Day 1 of chatgpt over stackoverflow

[Swastika Mukherjee @swastika24]

Can happen only in Goa 😂😂

[Sergio Pereira @SergioRocks]

ChatGPT has changed software development!

However, 68.1% of Software Engineers still don't use it.

As a CTO, I'm telling my teams to use ChatGPT in their daily work to increase both velocity and quality.

This is how 👇

[SK @sruthijith]

Longer video of a joyous bride taking part in the chenda melam (WA forward; said to be from Guruvayur temple).

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

One huge mistake that many managers make is to tell a senior member of their team:

“<XYZ> is entirely your decision. I am here to serve you. I will defer to whatever your decision is here.”

This happens at all levels e.g. a Founder/CEO delegating “product strategy” to the CPO.

[Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal]

I’m a W, how about you?

[Praveen GS @praveengs]

@JamesThurgood8 @LastPass 😂