Oracle has weaved itself into the digital infrastructures of the world’s biggest companies for decades with its database technology. The co-founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, finding a second wind, raced back up the charts to briefly become the wealthiest man in the world in September 2025, after investors rewarded Oracle’s shift to renting computing power… Continue reading Even Oracle Can’t Wave a Magic Wand: Why Most AI Rollouts Stall
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Engineering Judgment: The More We Automate, the More Work There is for Humans
Automating Judgment Out In an Amazon warehouse in Baltimore, roughly 300 full-time workers were fired between August 2017 and September 2018 for being too slow at picking, packing and moving items. That was close to a tenth of the building’s workforce. Not one firing required a human manager’s approval. Amazon’s system tracked “time off task,”… Continue reading Engineering Judgment: The More We Automate, the More Work There is for Humans