𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐀𝐈. 𝐅𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝

A genuinely thought-provoking evening at the Waracle 'Future Visions AI in SDLC' Panel in London — great to catch up once again with Brian Graham and a strong room of industry peers in an event thoughtfully scheduled to not clash with the key England World Cup game the next day!
The topic: the AI-Enabled SDLC.

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭: The 'Getting Excited → Getting Grounded → Getting Going' framework landed well. Too many organisations let excitement outpace the identification of compelling use cases. Grounding matters.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: Sovereign AI came up — echoing themes from London Tech Week. With significant data stewarded in overseas domains, unfavourable trade deals or tariffs could start affecting AI-enabled organisations in ways few are planning for yet.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐨: People remain central — not just product and process. Research suggests the optimum human-AI blend tends to be younger, more senior humans paired with agents. My contribution to the room: don't forget the human in it all, as a key mantra in both adoption and embedding.
Token spend approaching Cloud-level costs in some organisations makes the governance and value questions more pressing than ever now.

A fabulous evening of lively debate and stimulating discussion — with the most pleasing of London skylines as the backdrop. Thanks to the entire Waracle team for your wonderful hosting.

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