I’m going to go with “nothing”. They blend their numbers but I’d be willing to bet the amount of money they make selling direct licenses is tiny. (Tiny at their scale, I’d take it any day.) The whole OEM business isn’t even huge to them. If they start losing the enterprise market, then I’m sure they would throw down, but you and everyone you know installing Linux would be fine. Have you noticed how easy it is to steal windows and how there seem to be very few repercussions? That says volumes about what they think the revenue potential of that market is…

That was actually a great writeup.

I have to do a lot of slides and emails. So I can dump in massive email threas, tell it the outcome and address every concern in my writing style. Then I read it over, delete parts and hit send. Same with prepping presentations. I can say recap the quarter’s highlights for xyz, pick a few and move on. I still have to present them and read things, but that’s getting to be the large part of the job.

AI isn’t a magic human replacement in most fields at the moment.

What language models allow is automate tasks that couldn’t be automated before. For example, if you spread a 10% time gain from the people who are already working, you are going to hire 10% fewer people.

I’ll say here, where no one knows me, that GenAI tools have probably cut my workload by half. Probably more if you discount the amount of time I spend staying ahead of folks. I can also say that none of my teams have had additional any headcount approved in the last 2 years.

That honestly sucks as a zoomer. I will say that the people we have added to teams have all came from internal promotions or acquiring small companies. Maybe start a passion project company and start building something even if it doesn’t make money and is mostly on paper.

Ahh, the greater sea weasel

They’ve had a big fight, like two kids in a schoolyard. You know, they fight like hell, you can’t stop them. Let them fight for about two to three minutes, then it’s easy to stop them," he said at a press conference.

Rutte laughed and added: “And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get (them to) stop.”