What We Learned This Week | 8-10-25
Gen AI Strategy and Adoption, Agentic AI at Accenture Operations, Productionalizing AI Agents, Vibe Coding, Product Lessons from the Founder of Sierrai.AI, and more...
Hope you are enjoying summer. Its almost over. Below are some of the articles and podcasts which caught my attention past week. As always, welcome your feedback and ideas.
Articles
Will Your Gen AI Strategy Shape Your Future or Derail It | HBR | As companies move from generative AI (gen AI) pilots to scaled efforts with measurable outcomes, many incumbents struggle to turn ambition into impact.
GenAI Adoption Is Hard. Radical Employee Centricity Can Help | BCG | Redesigning work to ensure that employees are supported, motivated, and empowered can be both an enabler and result of AI adoption.
Accenture reimagines IT operations with agentic AI | CIO | The global consulting firm has built an AI-powered integration platform to support IT operations.
Six Principles for Production AI Agents | Github | Practical lessons from building production agentic systems.
Owning the Room in the Age of AI | MIT Sloan | When making a presentation, a strong, knowledgeable presence is what builds trust — no matter what channel that presentation is happening in.
Podcasts/Videos
How Claude Code became AI Coding Powerhouse | The MAD Podcast | Learn from Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, to unpack the wild story behind the fastest-growing AI coding tool on the planet.
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need to Know | Big Technology Podcast | Amjad Masad is the CEO of Replit. Masad joins Big Technology podcast for a frank discussion about vibe coding, or building software via prompt.
The Last Frontier of the Digital Utility | Energy Central | Intel on how the design fabric of high-tech utility workflows operates in the real world.
Are you Optimizing Your Virtual Communication Practices | HBR Ideacast |Practical ways to be more conscientious and intentional about our communication choices and patterns.
Brett Taylor on the future of Careers, Coding.. | Lenny’s Podcast | Learn from the the founder and CEO of Sierra, an AI agent company transforming customer service on the latest of AI Products.
A Book We are Reading in August
Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication | Andrew Brodsky | The essential guide for when (and how best) to use virtual communication tools, from video to instant messaging and everything in between.
A Quote We Are Pondering This Week
"Many frustrations are the result of unspoken expectations. Before you get too annoyed, make sure you are clearly expressing your thoughts." - James Clear
Upcoming Interesting Data & AI Conferences
Ai4 2025 | 8-11 to 8/13 | Vegas
Northeast Utilities Credit and Collections | 9/10 - 9/12 | Atlantic City, NJ
T&D World | 9/23=9/25 | Phoenix, AZ
Boston AI Week 2025 | 9/29 - 10/3 | Boston
UA Week 2025 | 10/28-10/30 | Austin
AWS re:invent 2025 | 12/1-12/5 | Vegas
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