The change AI brings to the c-suite and board
Entry jobs are in danger of being replaced by AI. But what about C-suite and board roles? Are they safer? Are they changing?
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How many arguments should you bring to create a convincing case?
When trying to convince, the number of arguments depends on who you target.
The Chain of Intent Process
The "chain of intent" approach to FinOps is designed to reduce decision fatigue and errors by using structured policies to automate decision-making. The process moves from high-level executive goals down to technical implementation.
AI growth is no longer constrained by software demand, but by simultaneous physical bottlenecks across the infrastructure stack.
AI is no longer constrained by demand. It is constrained by power, memory, fabrication, and time. Unlike software, infrastructure scales slowly. The companies that control electricity, chips, and supply chains may gain more advantage than the companies building the models themselves.
How to find innovative solutions to complex problems
LLMs are mediocre. And that is enough, most of the time.
LLMs are mediocre. And that might be enough.
FinOps getting vertical
AI growth is blocked
A table anonymiser
What I built (github) is a first step, not the destination. An anonymiser can strip identifiers from a billing file like a CUR, and mine is designed to work across table formats, not just AWS, but the structure of the data still carries meaning. Even without names, a detailed billing
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‘Military-grade security’ is a category error.
‘Military-grade security’ is a category error. It often means rugged hardware, not resilient controls. Think Rite in the Rain notebooks: great in mud and rain, irrelevant to tokens, misconfig, and attackers. Ask: which standard, what scope, what evidence?
Cloud strategy rarely survives the trip to engineering
FinOps gets stronger when it stops behaving like a reporting function and starts translating executive intent into operational reality. Cloud cost is not just an optimisation problem. It is a business decision about risk, reward, and which outcomes are worth paying for.
Big record labels and FinOps practitioners make the same mistake
FinOps wants to grow. It might shrink instead
As cloud approaches trillion-dollar scale, it becomes infrastructure. FinOps practices standardise and disperse into finance, engineering, and procurement. What remains is not optimisation, but context; translating strategy into coherent decisions across the system.