[Me & X] How do you go about working on what to invest in?
On organisational investment methodology, mapping, and the limits of AI in identifying interesting questions — by Simon Wardley.
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Dialogue-format discussions by Simon Wardley from LinkedIn.
[Me & X] SaaS is dead?
On why 'SaaS is dead' misses the nuance of evolution from timeshare to rental to utility — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Why practices take so long to co-evolve with AI
On co-evolution of practices, CIO incentives, and whether AI will replace executives — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Will AI replace software engineers?
On vibe coding, conversational programming, co-evolution of practice, and why 'this is different' is never different — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Why do you use biological terms when discussing business?
On hormesis, ecological resilience, and why survival of the fittest is a useless phrase — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Are you writing a book on software engineering?
On rewilding software engineering, why books take decades, and the difference between output and understanding — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Does LLMs / vibe coding mean more or fewer developers?
On Jevons paradox, why software engineers will be renamed not replaced, and the cost of firing Alice — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Why is Wardley mapping not more widely used?
On the 30-50 year spread of management practices, and growing tomatoes — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] What is the single most important lesson from building systems with AI?
On shallow vs deep problems, why AI-built systems are ticking time bombs, and The Machine Stops — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Coding tips: spinner verbs
On customising Claude's spinner verbs for a more honest AI coding experience — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] The future is prompt engineering
On the endless cycle of declaring practices dead while reasoning remains the real casualty — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Software engineering jobs won't disappear
On why software engineering jobs won't disappear, 50x more software, and the impact on consultancy models — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Thoughts on OpenClaw
On PicoClaw, AGI emergence, a satirical Reuters 2072 report, and the cathedral vs bazaar of intelligence — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Epistemic debt
On executives not looking at code, delegation of comprehension, epistemic debt and the Roman Empire parallel — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Reasoning vs output
On reasoning vs button pressing, commoditisation of output and earning power — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] A judgement system for decisions
On using adversarial AI agents in a judgement system to find better questions rather than answers — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] LLMs as non-kinetic warfare
On LLMs as non-kinetic warfare, cognitive capture, the SOMA analogy and Huxley — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Books, creative commons and community
On why the community spreading ideas matters more than physical books or royalties — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Winners in vibe coding
On winners in vibe coding, timeline predictions, intelligent agents and spimescript — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] AWS Sovereign Cloud
On AWS Sovereign Cloud, the CLOUD Act, and territorial vs technological sovereignty — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Vibe coding in production?
On whether vibe coding belongs in production, semantics not preserved, and map-based nuance — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Will AI take a long time?
On the exponential nature fooling us, LLM as future infrastructure, and market corrections — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Is Eric Schmidt right?
On Eric Schmidt being wrong, AI wranglers, and contextual tools you build not buy — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Happiness or production?
On optimising for happiness with prototypes vs production with understanding and lots of swearing — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Dismissive of AGI?
On AGI emerging from 100 billion dumb things, competition etymology, online gaming, and a satirical Reuters 2072 report — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Data centres in space
On data centres in space, jurisdictional arbitrage, GDPR vs CLOUD Act in orbit, and private banking in space — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] AI Sovereignty and the Commonwealth
On digital not physical sovereignty, Commonwealth ground stations, and sovereignty in space — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] AI for Prediction
On AI limitations in prediction, hallucinations worth exploring, ah-ha moments, and truth vs coherence — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Brexit, the EU and Elon
On Brexit, EEA/EFTA, the European Commission and Elon Musk's suggestion to break up the EU — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Agentic Engineering
On whether software engineering is evolving into agentic engineering, craft vs engineering, and coherence engines — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] State, Markets and Fascism
On Gentile, fascism vs neoliberalism vs socialism, and the inclusion/exclusion balance — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Social Media Ban
On banning social media for under 16, AI for under 30, the market as tool of society, and coherence engines — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Do You Trust AI?
On not trusting LLMs, non-deterministic outputs, Condorcet jury theorem, and domain-dependent accuracy — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Healthcare vs sickcare
On why we have sickcare systems that treat symptoms rather than healthcare systems that make people healthy — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Open Source AI and Sovereignty
On legislating for open source AI including training data, UK sovereignty sold cheaply, and the China card — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] AI inequality and the three classes
On AI inequality and the emergence of three classes: Human, AI, and Human+AI — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Wikipedia and arctic swimwear
On online reputation management, Wikipedia and the world's only arctic swimwear designer — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] How to decide where to use AI
On using maps to decide where to apply AI: methods, team structure, investment, value assessment, and sovereignty — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] GPTs as Warfare
On GPTs as non-kinetic warfare, capturing decision-making, vendor-controlled values, and a chilling closing — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] AI for contracts
On using LLMs for contracts, probabilistic systems vs legal precision, and Meng Weng Wong — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Organisational structure and population studies
On next generation organisational phenotypes, population studies and why the delta between cutting edge and traditional enterprise is 20-30 years — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] HS2 and project management
On HS2, project management failures, weak executives and over reliance on large management consultancy firms — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] AI predictions
On why most AI predictions are already happening, surprisingly dull or wild guesses — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] AI culture and the funeral parlour
On why context matters more than technology and why a funeral parlour does not need an AI culture — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] How easy is it to learn to map?
On the gap between how easy mapping sounds and how hard it is in practice, when most companies barely understand their purpose — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] New practices in vibe coding
On why the new practices in AI and vibe coding are still emerging and why population studies take a decade — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] AI market correction and pensions
On the AI bubble, pension funds being used as exit liquidity, AI-washing and the inevitable correction — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Energy and AI
On energy demand from AI, grid infrastructure, mechanical inertia and why this has been foreseeable since 2013 — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] ChatGPT for search
On using AI for search, the explosion of search activity, beliefs vs facts and the danger of AI as religion — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Beliefs embedded in AI
On demonstrating how US/Libertarian beliefs are embedded in AI training data and the danger of AI as Wormtongue — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Energy sector mapping
On mapping the energy sector, social benefit vs market benefit and why only one out of 36 high priority areas aligned to the market — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] Vibe wranglers vs software engineers
On the difference between vibe wrangling and software engineering as distinct aptitudes and why wranglers mean more engineering not less — by Simon Wardley.
LinkedIn[Me & X] The evolution axis
On the origins of the evolution axis in Wardley Maps, six months of hell, 9221 publications and why nothing worth having is ever easy — by Simon Wardley.
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