It’s that time of the year again. Brian and Aaron wrap of the year and make predictions for 2025.

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• Cloud + AI News of the Year 2024 (shows, summaries, links)

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Predictions, or 2025 areas of focus?

Aaron

• 2025 will be the year of AI ROI, and Agentic AI will make this worse
• There will be at least one “SkyNet scare” of Agentic AI
• 2025 will also be the year of inference (see ROI)

Brian:

• Gov’t vs. AI (US Trump, EU, China)
• Emergence of an AI Agent stack or standard?
• Useful or killer AI apps? (new focus of Weekend Perspective)
• AI pricing evolves based on usage patterns or just need for revenues?

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If AI is going to be the next big trend in tech and impact every aspect of society, how do you go about trying to evaluate where it is today and where it might be in a few years or a decade?

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HOW MIGHT YOU CONSIDER THE BEGINNING OF A TECHNOLOGY MARKET SHIFT?

• What’s the landscape of players in the game?
• What are the potential moats? (technology, economics, people, political policies, geographic)
• What are the economics of the technology shift? Where will big changes happen?
• What are the usage patterns? Are they well defined?
• How long behind the consumer shifts will the enterprise shifts happen?
• What behaviors will need to change (significantly) for this to have wide adoption?
• How might this impact my work, my family, my company, etc.?

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It’s that time of the year… Aaron and Brian answer emails and questions for the second half of the year.

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Question 1 - There was a lot of talk about Broadcom’s changes to VMware at the beginning of the year, but not as much since then. What’s going on in the world of virtualization?

Question 2 - Both of you have talked about working remotely for quite a while. What’s your take on RTO mandates? Any suggestions for remote workers?

Question 3 - Have either of you found any valuable uses of AI in your day-to-day job?

Question 4 - Now that the US elections are over, how do you expect the US Gov’t to be involved with the tech industry (anti-trust, CHIPS ACT, AI regulation, etc..)

Question 5 - AI models and GPUs seem to get all the attention in the news. Are there other areas of AI that you think are really important but aren’t getting much attention right now?

Question 6 - Are cloud skills still considered valuable? Do certifications matter anymore?

Question 7 - What’s going on in the open source communities like the CNCF?

Question 8 - What surprised you the most this year?

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