James Pierce ๐บ๐ธ
@talktojpierce
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Hawaii State Executive @IBM specializing in #Cloud and #AI Solutions. #technologist & #waterman. Opinions are my own
Honolulu, HI
Joined October 2018
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๐ Hawaii network โ Iโm in for Make-A-Wish Hawaiiโs WISH! Winterโs Glow gala! May 16, 2026 โข 5:30 PM โข Sheraton Waikiki Letโs light up wishes for keiki battling critical illness. Tickets, tables & sponsorships open! Join me? ๐ https://t.co/ivCLYSKibk DM or contact Arden
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Check out my latest article: AI Meets Regulatory Compliance โ DANGER WILL ROBINSON https://t.co/8fH0mfR3uc via @LinkedIn
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Prompts & Reality (5) โ Where AI ambition meets the messy enterprise Every breakthrough arrives before the rulebook does. Mobile phones exploded in the early 2000s โ then came app-store privacy rules...
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I was motivated my the Rotation 4 way test snd created a decision making framework for IT executivesโฆ 1- will it increase revenues? 2- will it decrease costs? 3- will it improve customer experience? 4- will it improve my security posture? Donโt over- complexify
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The thread discourse here definitely runs the gamutโฆ.
Big Tech just quietly repriced the value of a college degree to near zero. The Magnificent Seven (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Tesla) went from new grads making up over 50% of new hires pre-pandemic to 25% in 2023 to 7% today. Entry-level positions across
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AI impact on mechanical engineering
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Live long and model on ๐
SpaceX has a custom version of Grokโฆand itโs called Spok. Glorious.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Unitree robot's incredible martial arts performance at the Chinese New Year gala. And there's a final boss at the end.
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Check out my latest article: Turning PowerPoint into Product https://t.co/o0vDDeZerM via @LinkedIn
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๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐ & ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ (๐ฏ) โ ๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฏ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ AI capability is accelerating on an exponential curve. AI deploymentโฆ isnโt.
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Great observation @aakashgupta โThe capability curve is exponential. The deployment curve is logarithmic.โ
90% of American businesses still donโt use AI in production. That single number reframes this entire post. An AI startup CEO wrote 5,000 words comparing AI to Covid in February 2020. His argument: he describes what he wants built in plain English, walks away for four hours,
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โItโs more fun than crayonsโ
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This came across my feed and was a worthy #quoteoftheday agentic ai analogy โItโs like a tamagotchi but you feed it jira tickets instead of snacksโ (My agents are good at creating jira tickets LOL) credit @Voxyz_ai
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"But it was the model that was released last week (GPT-5.3 Codex) that shook me the most. It wasn't just executing my instructions. It was making intelligent decisions. It had something that felt, for the first time, like judgment. Like taste. The inexplicable sense of knowing
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On this day in 1996: Deep Blue became first machine to beat a chess champion.
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My Dev team rocks... #quoteoftheday "QA stands for quality assurance NOT questions and answers."
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I'm afraid this one is second hand so I can't give proper credit... still good #quoteoftheday "4 KLOCs vs 430K+ KLOCs is the difference between 'I built this' and 'we have a team meeting about the architecture meeting'"
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and another #quoteoftheday "I had hoped it was a very temporary solution... apparently nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution."
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Catching up on my #quoteoftheday "Well - now I see it . The runbook is written like the M*A*S*H bomb defusing instructions. 'Cut the wires... but first remove the fuse.'"
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Check out my latest article: Prompts Are Easy. Reality Is Everywhere. https://t.co/eKTaQCdUfm via @LinkedIn
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"Fail fast is ok. Fail for is not." #quoteoftheday
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Good #quoteoftheday courtesy of Rob Thomas โWhat we achieve in life is directly proportional to what we attempt to do.โ
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