AI Inside the Enterprise
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So the board goes to the CEO. What does the board say? We need more AI. And what does the CEO say? Oh, okay. I'll get, like, a consultant to do more AI. And then they have some centralized project that nobody knows how it works. They haven't aligned their operations, and those things will fail.
The funniest concept that the more code we write, the less we would need engineers would be the opposite because now your systems are even more complex than before, which means that you're gonna be running into even more challenges of when you need to do a system upgrade or when there's downtime and you have to figure out, like, well, how do I fix that problem or when there's a security incident. So yeah, we're just getting started with the jobs on this front.
They're going to hit a wall at integration. The thing that's not different about AI and that agents don't fix, that nothing fix, is that any enterprise of a thousand people or more or that's older than ten years is just a mass of stuff that's sitting there waiting to be integrated. And you can't just say it's going to integrate. AI actually does it help to integrate anything.
AI feels like it's moving fast. And for many companies, the real transformation is just getting started. There's a growing gap between what's possible in Silicon Valley and what's being deployed inside large organizations. Engineers are already shipping with agents and new workflows, while enterprises are beginning to adapt those capabilities to more complex systems and real world use cases. That creates a moment of opportunity. The tools are getting more powerful, and companies are learning how to integrate them into existing workflows, data systems, and decision making processes. At the same
Hey. We are here monitoring the situation live, and we're very excited to talk about a bunch of AI stuff. And we have three of us are here today. There's me, Steven Sonofsky, and Martin Casado, who will wave and say, hi. I'm Martin.
And Hello. Hi, Martin.
And Aaron Levy, who is is working on the elevation of his hair today, so we're excited about that.
Just keeps getting more vertical. And I thought I could kinda tame it, but it didn't work.
And is that just a token issue or a parameter number of
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