A middle manager's AI odyssey

The following is a short fiction setting the scene for this project and how it could fit in a corporate/enterprise context. If you are in such an environment, I'd love to hear from you and better understand your needs and concerns in implementing your company AI strategy.

"By end-of-year we'll be AI-first and a whole new company." Good news is my camera was off and no one saw me spitting coffee all over my pants.

It's been a while since I turned on my camera at our monthly Engineering All Hands. They're usually quite boring, more of the same news from various teams, not much excitement these days. I was browsing at the same time, looking for some nice beaches for our upcoming summer vacations in a week. Yet today was different; I should have paid more attention when I saw that Patrick, our CTO, was going to be the one presenting.

Daniel (lead IT ops, the most cynical of the bunch): "What the heck was that? How do they think we could get AI-first while we can't even get any workload in the cloud? 😂"

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