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Trust, technology and the growing importance of data sovereignty
By Oliver Kohll Introduction: In my experience, trust has always been one of the biggest challenges in the IT industry.For decades, organisations have invested enormous sums into digital transformation projects with mixed results. Anyone who has worked in enterprise technology long enough will remember the recurring findings from the Standish Group reports: a strikingly low percentage of IT projects delivered on time, on budget, and with the outcomes businesses originally expected. But I found the root problem was rarely technology alone. More often, it was a trust gap between commercial teams and technical delivery teams. Businesses struggled to articulate their…
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Vibe Coding vs No Coding
In this article, we posit that vibe coding, though an exciting technology, is not (yet?) well suited to use by non-technologists. No Code in contrast has been specifically designed with non technologists in mind. It is however limited in scope. Bigger gains can be found by combining no code and AI, but, crucially, in well thought through ways. You need a design purpose and philosophy which centralises the business person as user and designer. Background – the AI reality Recently we’ve been coming across lots of talk online about reality checks about AI in general and uses of it like…
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Why your back office system could be holding you back – and what to do about it
Walk into any well-run factory, and what do you see? A seamless flow of materials, workers, and machines, each knowing exactly what needs to happen next. Conveyor belts keep products moving, machinery hums in harmony, and data points from the production line feed into dashboards, telling managers exactly how things are performing. Now, imagine if a factory floor were run the way many back-office systems are today. Boxes stacked in random corners, workers shouting across the warehouse to find out what to do next, machines operating on different power sources that occasionally fail to sync up. Productivity would collapse overnight.…
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Will AI kill SaaS?
Recently we attended an event in the excellent TechSpark series ‘Bristol and Bath AI x Byte Sized Cyber MashUp’, led by a young entrepreneur who said, in a provocative statement, that AI will soon ‘kill’ SaaS services, as everyone will be able to ask AI to generate working code for their own bespoke application. SaaS stands for Software as a Service, meaning web applications such as Mailchimp, Xero, Google Docs or Agilebase. As with many ‘X vs. Y’ statements, I think the truth is more that ‘X and Y together’ will be the new way of working. We have a…
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Better AI?
AI features can be really useful in automating or helping with tasks, if you know how they work and what to watch out for. However, in the professional space of those in or close to the AI industry, some thinking is crystallising around what fundamental improvements would and could look like – currently the development lens has been rather narrow, growing as it has from Silicon Valley’s perceptions of needs and benefits. A study (Forbes link) has just found that ‘on average, users of AI at work had a time savings of [just] 3%’. Here are a few forward thinking…
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AI will out-think humans in 14 months’ time, says Anthropic CEO
The story of AI is beginning a new chapter. Is the next AI breakthrough around the corner, asks Agilebase’s CTO Oliver Kohll? In a 13,000-word essay on his blog last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declared that an AI breakthrough is around the corner. According to Amodei, we are 14 months away from the development of “Powerful AI.” He defines that as “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in fields like biology and engineering. His essay has caused a stir in the tech world. Unlike other AI boosters such as Open AI’s Sam Altman or Elon Musk, Amodei is seen…
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