Tag: chatgpt
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The Cost of Cheap Code
This is part of The New Cost of Everything, a five-part series on what AI is actually changing. Post 1 has the foundational framework. I subscribe to a newsletter called The Rundown AI. It covers major AI announcements — new models, product launches, capability updates — five days a week. On a typical Tuesday: Zuckerberg’s…
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Measure Once, Cut Twice?
This is part of The New Cost of Everything, a five-part series on what AI is actually changing — and what it isn’t. Each post stands alone. The argument compounds if you read all five. Start at Post 1 for the foundational framework. Three paths companies are taking with AI and headcount — and why…
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Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Greenfield: The Three Tiers of AI Value
This is part of The New Cost of Everything, a five-part series on what AI is actually changing — and what it isn’t. 1 I spend a lot of time reading about and talking to people about AI. Most of those conversations follow the same arc. Someone describes a tool they’ve started using. They tell…
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I Got Eight Weeks of Analysis Done in an Afternoon.
A Practitioner’s Guide to VSM and VSA in Knowledge Work Eleven months after launching a new expense approval system, I discovered that Stage 2 — the gap between Finance approval and Payables processing — was eating more than half of total cycle time. The bottleneck wasn’t the approval chain. It was the queue after approval.…
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AI Rewards Thinkers and Replaces The Rest
The more time I spend with AI, the more impressed I become. Recently, it helped me write a preliminary report for an economic impact study and map several internal workflows to identify service level gaps. Also, I used AI to analyze a systemic drinking water shortage problem where I live in West Africa. I had…
Jeff Beaumont 