Thoughts
Essays and notes on technology, data and how organizations make the most of them.
- AI and the silver bullet: what is still missing?
Building applications with AI brought me back to Fred Brooks’s “No Silver Bullet.” AI removes much of the accidental work of building software, but the essential questions remain: what to build, how it should work, and what must change for it to make a difference.
- Hello World! Again.
AI is challenging how I keep learning. My approach so far: start with the business problem I want to solve, then work backward.
- Technology enables incredible things, but only if we understand it
A summary of my TEDxINCAE talk, with the slides in English: what a health project in rural Guatemala and research with a cloud provider show about the barriers between people and the value of technology.
- The Economic Value of the Cloud and its Adoption in Costa Rica
Cloud Computing, more than a new technology, is a new IT consumption model. It allows using and paying for resources on demand, avoiding any investment in fixed assets. With this model customers can attain tremendous…
- Is PaaS our Silver Bullet?
Developing software is difficult. We may have the best developers in the world, the most agile development processes, and the best coding tools available, and it will continue to be difficult. This is so because of…
- The Cloud as a Technological Innovation
How can we frame the cloud phenomenon within the technological innovation literature stream? Can we say it’s a naturally evolving creative destruction process where entrants offer services technologically superior to…