The first wave of successful AI implementations will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was dominated by large-scale enterprise installations that eliminated jobs. Consumer …
I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.
OpenAI targets workplace professionals as enterprise AI demand surges
‘These leaders recognize AI as the most consequential shift of their lifetime, and they’re asking us how to reinvent their companies around it’
The Consumer AI Revolution Won’t Be Technical. It’ll Be Emotional.
In technology, the obvious revolutions often come last.
AI Becomes the UI: When business logic moves to the AI tier, dashboards fade, and agents become the interface
In 2025, the Innovation Office at ServiceNow underwent the first phase of its transformation to study and produce original, future-forward research and thought leadership around AI business transformation, the future of work, quantum, the future of industries, smart spaces, and prototype innovative possibilities never imagined on the ServiceNow platform.
AI's Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Sequoia AI Ascent 2025 Keynote
AI is Creating Peak Software, Media is the Best Analogy
Let's learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
AI Agents Are Taking Over: And That’s Good For Business
Autonomous AI societies are transforming commerce with self-governing, agent-driven systems, redefining the future of business through collaborative intelligence.
Google Cloud Next 2026: The End Of The AI Pilot Era
Google Cloud Next 2026 opened with Thomas Kurian declaring the end of the AI pilot era and Sundar Pichai comparing the enterprise refrain of last year (“Can we build an agent?”) to today’s: “How do we manage thousands of them?” Google Cloud Next ’26 answers the second question with a single product story: Gemini Enterprise […]
Presentations — Benedict Evans
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.
Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago | Fortune
In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago | Fortune
In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI
Information technology is in the midst of a revolution in which omnipresent data collection and machine learning are impacting the human world as never before. The word ``intelligence'' is being...
AI's Affordability Crisis
A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...
