We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

AWS announced interesting AI management updates for Amazon Bedrock at Re:invent. Both multi-agent management and prompt routing across models will be useful for enterprises seeking to expand the utility and cost structure of AI.

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South Korea saw government unrest in an attempted military coup last week.

We discuss the ramifications of South Korea owning 60% of the global memory chip market and considerations for the #CIO in looking at geopolitical strife.

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MLCommons has released its AIluminate 1.0 LLM benchmarks to describe several categories of harm including sex crimes, violence, and defamation risks.

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Startup Emergence AI announced its autonomous multi-agent AI orchestrator. At a time on every enterprise platform has its own agents, Hyoun and Charles think it is about time for a third-party agent orchestration solution to hit the market and get some traction.

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South Korea saw government unrest in an attempted military coup last week. Although we are not expert political scientists, international supply chains do affect our ability to source IT. We discussed the ramifications of South Korea owning 60% of the global memory chip market

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Salesforce recently announced a new set of agentic AI capabilities to support Marc Benioff’s stated goal of building one billion agents over the next year.

But two of these stuck out in particular: testing & real time analysis capabilities

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ServiceNow recently announced multiple Now Assist-related products, governance capabilities, and tools to support the use of AI.

We were especially interested in the Guardian governance, Data Kit for dataset management and utilization, and Analytics to show AI adoption. youtu.be/wnRBb1tRgOU?...

At Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft introduced an overwhelming Book of announcements. Charles and Hyoun note Microsoft’s willingness to work with almost everyone & a welcomed approach to small language models. But Hyoun wonders if Microsoft is taking agentic AI seriously enough.
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This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park & Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news & topics from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Snowflake, & more while highlighting the work of some of the top journalists in enterprise tech.

https://youtu.be/L2YAE33UIiE?si=D_D4246e9_7Ahs1N

AppDirect, an IT marketplace, announces the intent to acquire vCom Solutions, a longtime veteran in telecom management & managed mobility.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241112277595/en/AppDirect-Announces-Upcoming-Acquisition-of-IT-Spend-Management-Leader-vCom-Solutions

Today, Salesforce announced a variety of agentic management tools to automate testing, prototype in sandbox environments, and manage usage. My take on the ones that mattered most:

https://amalgaminsights.com/2024/11/20/salesforce-announces-new-agentic-management-capabilities/

Amalgam Insights has identified six key trends emerging in 2024 for using #FinOps across the entire IT estate

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