Larry Dignan
@ldignan.bsky.social
I cover the buy side and sell side of enterprise technology. Editor in Chief, Constellation Insights and part of Constellation Research.
Saw this friend on a bike ride.
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Saw this friend on a bike ride.
It's becoming clear that you're not going to need AGI, superintelligence or anything like that to do more with a lot less people. #AI www.constellationr.com/blog-news/in...
AGI may be far away, but 'jagged AI' will still take jobs
The enterprise AI market appears to be embracing a little nuance and CxOs would be wise to avoid banter about artificial general intelligence and think about systems that drive returns in the real wor...
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November 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
It's becoming clear that you're not going to need AGI, superintelligence or anything like that to do more with a lot less people. #AI www.constellationr.com/blog-news/in...
Enterprise software vendors appear to be coalescing around the idea that process mining is an enabler for agentic AI and should be built into platforms. www.constellationr.com/blog-news/in...
AI agents, automation, process mining starting to converge
Enterprise software vendors appear to be coalescing around the idea that process mining is an enabler for agentic AI and should be built into platforms. In recent days, process mining, task mining and...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Enterprise software vendors appear to be coalescing around the idea that process mining is an enabler for agentic AI and should be built into platforms. www.constellationr.com/blog-news/in...
A quick Q2 tour of IT, AI and efficiency plans from enterprises. www.constellationr.com/blog-news/in...
Enterprise technology customers look to AI, efficiency to combat uncertainty
Enterprise technology companies are leveraging artificial intelligence and technology to drive efficiencies designed to offset everything from tariffs and inflation to growth investments. Cognizant CE...
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August 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A quick Q2 tour of IT, AI and efficiency plans from enterprises. www.constellationr.com/blog-news/in...
Folks don't get AWS or laws of large numbers....https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/insights/aws-ai-strategy-jassys-long-talking-and-big-picture
AWS' AI strategy: Jassy's long talking and the big picture
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's long-winded defense of Amazon Web Services' AI strategy sure caused some consternation, but fears are likely misplaced. After all, nuance doesn't play well on Wall Street and n...
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August 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Folks don't get AWS or laws of large numbers....https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/insights/aws-ai-strategy-jassys-long-talking-and-big-picture
Foundation models are reaching the point where for some use cases there won't be much improvement with upgrades. Do you really care if a new LLM is 0.06% better in math or reasoning relative to another you plan to use in the call center on the cheap?
The rise of good enough LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) have reached the phase where advances are incremental as they quickly become commodities. Simply put, it's the age of good enough LLMs where the innovation will come from ...
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July 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Foundation models are reaching the point where for some use cases there won't be much improvement with upgrades. Do you really care if a new LLM is 0.06% better in math or reasoning relative to another you plan to use in the call center on the cheap?
Samsung launched its latest devices--Galaxy Z Fold7, Z Flip7 and Watch8 Series--but the more interesting development may be the company's big bet on digital healthcare via the acquisition of Xealth.
Samsung lays out digital health plans with Xealth acquisition
Samsung launched its latest devices--Galaxy Z Fold7, Z Flip7 and Watch8 Series--but the more interesting development may be the company's big bet on digital healthcare via the acquisition of Xealth. T...
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July 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Samsung launched its latest devices--Galaxy Z Fold7, Z Flip7 and Watch8 Series--but the more interesting development may be the company's big bet on digital healthcare via the acquisition of Xealth.
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Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with an observability tool called Command Center and MCP support, and says 8,000 customers have signed up to deploy Agentforce (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
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June 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with an observability tool called Command Center and MCP support, and says 8,000 customers have signed up to deploy Agentforce (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
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If everyone has impostor syndrome, does it exist at all?
Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It
The concept of Impostor Syndrome has become ubiquitous. Critics, and even the idea’s originators, question its value.
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June 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If everyone has impostor syndrome, does it exist at all?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this Uber data and AI service is going to be a big business. Unique data set for models, and real problem to solve. What I do wonder about though is the talent part and Uberfying roles higher on the food chain. www.constellationr.com/blog-news/in...
Uber AI Solutions expands, targets enterprises
Uber is expanding its AI and data services unit, Uber AI Solutions, as it looks to support labs and enterprises looking to build AI models and deploy agents. The company is offering the data and AI pl...
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June 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this Uber data and AI service is going to be a big business. Unique data set for models, and real problem to solve. What I do wonder about though is the talent part and Uberfying roles higher on the food chain. www.constellationr.com/blog-news/in...
My take on the LLM-go-round.
Google Gemini vs. OpenAI, DeepSeek vs. Qwen: What we're learning from model wars
Enterprise leaders should be forgiven for nursing a case of whiplash over the latest large language model (LLM) developments. Almost daily, there's some advance that generates headlines. Instead of ch...
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March 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My take on the LLM-go-round.
#AgenticAI is likely to have an unwelcome side effect: Data wars and lawsuits between platforms. Data access skirmishes will proliferate as millions of AI agents start trying to complete tasks autonomously.
The data wars are just starting and agentic AI may be a trigger
Agentic AI is likely to have an unwelcome side effect: Data wars and lawsuits between platforms. Process mining company Celonis filed a US antitrust complaint against SAP in the US District Court of C...
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March 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
#AgenticAI is likely to have an unwelcome side effect: Data wars and lawsuits between platforms. Data access skirmishes will proliferate as millions of AI agents start trying to complete tasks autonomously.
Agentic AI will lead to more AI infrastructure. Cheaper models will bring more consumption as will enterprise use cases. The wrinkle is that Nvidia's big customers--AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Meta--all are building custom silicon to lessen their dependence on Nvidia.
Nvidia GTC 2025: Six lingering questions
Nvidia's GTC conference kicked off with a long keynote from CEO Jensen Huang, a roadmap extending in 2028 and an integrated AI stack that's hard for rivals to match. Here's a look at the questions tha...
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March 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Agentic AI will lead to more AI infrastructure. Cheaper models will bring more consumption as will enterprise use cases. The wrinkle is that Nvidia's big customers--AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Meta--all are building custom silicon to lessen their dependence on Nvidia.
So many takeaways from @constellationr.bsky.social and its AI Forum this week. Here's everything that was covered.
Enterprise AI: Here are the trends to know right now
Enterprise AI is evolving at such a breakneck pace that it’s tough to keep up. AI, notably agentic AI, generative AI and the mutations to come, is rewriting business and society in real-time. Constell...
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March 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
So many takeaways from @constellationr.bsky.social and its AI Forum this week. Here's everything that was covered.
Customer experiences and employee experiences are often comingled, AI has CX potential but it's only as good as the data quality, and maybe you should think of your AI agents as your children. These were a few of the takeaways from @constellationr.bsky.social Ambient Experience Summit 2025.
Constellation Research Ambient Experience Summit 2025: 10 CX takeaways on people, data, AI
Customer experiences and employee experiences are often comingled, AI has CX potential but it's only as good as the data quality, and maybe you should think of your AI agents as your children. These w...
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February 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Customer experiences and employee experiences are often comingled, AI has CX potential but it's only as good as the data quality, and maybe you should think of your AI agents as your children. These were a few of the takeaways from @constellationr.bsky.social Ambient Experience Summit 2025.
Within a few weeks you can rest assured that your enterprise software providers will be layering in consumption models. CIOs are used to consumption models from their hyperscale cloud providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, but have struggled to manage those costs for years.
AI agents bring consumption models to SaaS: Goldilocks or headache?
Enterprise procurement departments are already annoyed with software-as-a-service contracts and AI agents--and the consumption-based models that go with them--are likely to make deals even more compli...
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February 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Within a few weeks you can rest assured that your enterprise software providers will be layering in consumption models. CIOs are used to consumption models from their hyperscale cloud providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, but have struggled to manage those costs for years.
Workday's bet is that HR and HCM should manage AI agents and digital labor as an extension of humans. Couple that with Workday's financial apps to track returns and it makes sense. Get ready for a bevy of digital labor management platforms (and likely another acronym).
Workday aims to be system of record for AI agents, digital labor
Workday is already a hub to manage human capital. Now it wants to manage fleets of digital labor--AI agents from Workday as well as third parties--via Workday Agent System of Record. The company also ...
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February 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Workday's bet is that HR and HCM should manage AI agents and digital labor as an extension of humans. Couple that with Workday's financial apps to track returns and it makes sense. Get ready for a bevy of digital labor management platforms (and likely another acronym).
I really like how @anthropic.com is sharing data sets on core AI adoption topics and then sharing the data. Was able to highlight this in class right away.
Anthropic/EconomicIndex · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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February 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I really like how @anthropic.com is sharing data sets on core AI adoption topics and then sharing the data. Was able to highlight this in class right away.
The legacy of DeepSeek will have little to do with the engineering and performance of the model. The real impact of DeepSeek will be that it has shifted the AI workload conversation from hardware and GPUs to efficiency, cost for performance and the application layer.
DeepSeek's real legacy: Shifting the AI conversation to returns, value, edge
The legacy of DeepSeek will have little to do with the engineering and performance of the model. The real impact of DeepSeek will be that it has shifted the AI workload conversation from hardware and ...
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February 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The legacy of DeepSeek will have little to do with the engineering and performance of the model. The real impact of DeepSeek will be that it has shifted the AI workload conversation from hardware and GPUs to efficiency, cost for performance and the application layer.
Well Meta already controls a lot of brains and memories. Might as well seal the deal.
Meta shares work on a system that uses a magnetic scanner and a deep neural network to analyze brain signals and identify which keys people pressed while typing (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)
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February 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Well Meta already controls a lot of brains and memories. Might as well seal the deal.
A bit contrarian. A good read on older entrepreneurs.
The Investor Betting on People In Their 50s and 60s—Because Older Is Better
Forget what you think you know about brilliant young entrepreneurs. Most people who start successful companies are in middle age or beyond.
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February 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A bit contrarian. A good read on older entrepreneurs.
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February 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
CEOs from Qualcomm and Arm say that AI inferencing will increasingly happen at the edge in multiple devices as large language models become more efficient and need less compute.
Qualcomm, Arm cheer cheaper models, AI inference at the edge
CEOs from Qualcomm and Arm say that AI inferencing will increasingly happen at the edge in multiple devices as large language models become more efficient and need less compute. The buzz around DeepSe...
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February 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
CEOs from Qualcomm and Arm say that AI inferencing will increasingly happen at the edge in multiple devices as large language models become more efficient and need less compute.
Quantinuum launches generative AI quantum framework, sees quantum computing as synthetic data generator. This is just one part of the growing hybrid quantum-HPC stack that's emerging.
Quantinuum launches generative AI quantum framework, sees quantum computing as synthetic data generator
Quantinuum launched its Generative Quantum AI framework that aims to combine AI, quantum computing and supercomputers to address problems classical computing can't solve. The launch of "Gen QAI" is de...
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February 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quantinuum launches generative AI quantum framework, sees quantum computing as synthetic data generator. This is just one part of the growing hybrid quantum-HPC stack that's emerging.
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Here's the WIRED piece from 1AM, reporting that -- contrary to White House claims -- a 25-year-old Musk lackey has obtained direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government:
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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EMERGENCY PIECE: Previous reports that Musk's DOGE programmers only have "read only" access is inaccurate. I can confirm what @wired.com first reported at 1 AM today that they have Read & WRITE access with a source in BFS referring to this as "apocalyptic"
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Day Five of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Not “Read Only” access anymore
If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...
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February 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Here's the WIRED piece from 1AM, reporting that -- contrary to White House claims -- a 25-year-old Musk lackey has obtained direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government:
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...