I argue for relevance to society’s needs. I don’t think student-as-consumer will survive the AI wave.

Do they not do “bringing random things from the supermarket to church day”?

I thought it was Awkwardly Timed Harvest Festival?

This is a classic format. The last time I saw this, the subject was signal-to-noise ratio. It is interesting to consider that math is the signal, and 'magic' is the noise.

Sorry, I’d misremembered the year of yours when I met this chap. Yep, you’re still champion!

What would you think if offered citizenship of a state? What state would you choose? Would you vote?

What does this do to the role of (public sector in particular) CIO? What changes in the balance of skills and priorities? How do IT org cultures change? I think, not back to the nerdy cottage industry of the 00s but also cannot sustain the tech-clueless mainly-a-consumer culture of 10s and early 20s

What does this do to the moat of platforms like Dynamics or Salesforce vs just doing things with open source libraries? I’m not sure.

Consider especially the work to go from your orgs org model, business processes and culture to a good IT soln, as expressed in configuration and integration of platform solutions, bespoke tweaks to platforms… this is large. Seems likely to be very reducible by LLM as config files to shared base.

Even before LLM, cost of supplier managers, procurement, service and delivery orgs in IT is huge. Nontechnical CIO orgs are not cheap at all, and SaaS costs are very hard to control.