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As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a question that your company asks about you every performance cycle: is this engineering manager spending their time effectively to advance the company or their organization? Confusingly, in my experience, answering these nominally similar questions has surprisingly little in common. This piece spends some time exploring both questions in the particularly odd moment we live in today, where managers are being told they’ve spent the last decade doing the wrong things, and need to engage with a new model of engineering management in order to be valued by the latest iteration of the industry.

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I was tired of consulting with multiple LLMs. So I vibe-coded this side project - a tool to automatically compare answers from multiple AI models for questions I really care about (think: health, finance, kids' education). Started it as something just for myself, then I wrapped it as a web app so others could try it too. Under the hood, it uses some principles from research on improving AI reliability (details in first comment👇). Would love for you all to check it out and let me know what you think, or how you’d use it! https://trustedchat.chat #thanks Ilan Voronel for the support and expert advise! | 11 comments on LinkedIn

Novo Nordisk har lige slået stillingen som Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO) op, og jobopslaget er vanvittigt interessant, hvis man ser på det med AI adoptions- og transformationsbriller. Opslaget giver indsigt i, hvilke ansvar og kvalifikationer de vægter, og det giver et indblik i enterprise virksomheders tilgang til AI. Der er meget positivt, men også et par centrale valg, der er værd at diskutere. 1) En bred og strategisk rolle Novo Nordisk har tydeligvis set, at det her er en BRED og transformerende rolle. Der er et kæmpe fokus på ledelse, organisatorisk transformation og tværgående relationer. Det er så fedt at se! Alt for mange virksomheder isolerer deres AI-ledere i en snæver, teknisk rolle, der i praksis gør alle indsatser taktiske i stedet for strategiske. Her sigter Novo Nordisk højere. 2) Ejerskabet Opslaget signalerer et centralt AI-ejerskab. CAIO'en skal "eje" og "drive" udrulningen og transformationen. Det er interessant, da best practices peger på, at ejerskab skal decentraliseres og ligge ude i forretningsfunktionerne. CAIO-funktionen skal agere support og enabler. Gør man det for centralt, er der en kæmpe risiko for, at initiativerne sander til og aldrig bliver forankret. 3) De tekniske kvalifikationer På trods af det brede fokus på transformation og ledelse, leder de stadig efter en profil med en tung, teknisk uddannelse. For mig er det et lille levn fra "AI er et sæt tekniske værktøjer"-tiden. Er den bedste til at drive kompleks forandringsledelse og organisationsudvikling nødvendigvis den samme person som den med den dybeste tekniske baggrund? Det er jeg ikke sikker på. 4) Placeringen Rollen er placeret i Enterprise IT. Det er helt klassisk, men ikke helt godt. Reglen er simpel: Hvis AI ikke diskuteres dér, hvor strategien sættes (i direktionen), bliver AI aldrig ægte strategisk. Det risikerer at fastholde AI som en IT-disciplin frem for en kerneforretnings-disciplin. Jeg håber Novo Nordisk finder den rigtige, for rollen er virkeligt afgørende for den næste tid. | 61 comments on LinkedIn

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