James and I sat down to ruminate and prepare for our upcoming next season: The Future of Work. It’s obvious that GPT (and especially ChatGPT) has completely saturated everyone’s brains. It seems like we’re finally seeing the veil between front-office and back-office start to tear. But most of all, we are PUMPED about this season — as both a way to learn from great guests, and as a time capsule of a unique moment in tech history.

You can listen to the new episode here.

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Money Quotes

James

You’re seeing a shift from systems being systems of record to decision support.

The proliferation of low-code tools are making it much more accessible to interconnect front-office and back-office systems.

This is coming very soon: enterprise-grade GPT services that train on your data.

Intranets are usually where information goes to die.

Paul

The future of work is about the new ubiquity of really good tech. There’s a shift going on in how much businesses believe they can actually do with technology.

I see the lights turn on with more non-techie people now, when the conversation turns to what you can do with it in your business.

The fact that the world is changing so fast means that there is such a thing as “The Future of Work”.

ChatGPT made the magic of tech real to people who don’t give a crap about tech. We as techies live in a world where we have always believed [that tech could make a real difference], but now it’s clear to non-techies.