Tag: ai
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AI Adoption Maturity Model
I was reflecting on some of the transformations we’ve seen internally at Microsoft, especially in teams adopting AI, and I think it’s helpful to frame progress in levels. It cuts through vanity metrics like “does the team have copilot access” and asks a better question: how much has this team actually changed because of AI?…
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Yes, “To MCP, or not” is the real question
Everyone’s excited about MCP and I love it. But, just because you can expose every API endpoint as a tool doesn’t mean you should. This is something Tom Laird-McConnell and I discussed when OpenAPI based plugins were all the rage, and it stuck with me: APIs and user actions are rarely a clean 1:1 mapping.…
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Weekend Experiment: Can AI Make Scientific Discoveries?
Friday night, I had this thought: If we fed raw observations into AI, could it discover the hidden laws of physics – just like Newton pieced together gravity from centuries of data? Because, if AI could truly discover a fundamental law on its own, wouldn’t that be a scientific breakthrough?! So, I decided to built…