Moving from our legacy reporting tool to an AI-native, semantic-forward, agentic-focused stack presented real challenges for us as a mature organization. Sales dashboards that showed outdated metrics, financial measures that didn’t have consistency, and fires to put out every day.

It’s not planning, it’s resource attrition.

🧠 No More Cognitive Load-Bearing
- Data stored in AI-native applications now allow you to be wrong *confidently*
- Show graphs in *real-time*
- Elaborate incessantly without providing any real value

🤖 Agent Native Control, Real Accountability
- Provide semantic context regardless of what that means to anyone!
- Say something else about semantic layers
Is anybody actually reading the rest of this satire post?

✨ SparkleAI Compatibility
- Increase your teams budget by up to 220% by adding sparkles in strategic places to show that you are an AI native
- Don’t provide any actual business values—that’s old thinking—look to the future

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Does that post work for you? This post successfully seem like a legit post but link users to a service that will be bankrupt in 6 months. I can provide more context by melting the polar ice caps for $24.99 a month.

I have a very witchy-type group, so I’ve created a system to incorporate tarot cards into the game as a sort of overarching fate that the players can play with, here’s how it works.

At the beginning of the session, I will lay tarot cards (the major arcana) out on the table for each player and the GM, each player will choose one and read it allowed. I have a little book that gives me some detail on what the fate of the tarot cards entail. For example, one player could pull “The Hierophant” which then I will read a little inscription that says to “place faith in institutional powers and do not go off the beaten path”

during the session, the players can choose to “follow their omen” if they are stuck on a decision or they wish to see where it leads. Following the omen might provide some material benefits such as: advantage on the roll relating to it, some information, or material reward.

Here’s the kicker though… the GM has a card too that they can spend. If anyone knows what “The Tower” is, it’s fun when I pull that one lol

Just didn’t know if it was still a good option verses something like BORK due to the % health shred. Does Black Cleaver scale better even with something like dr mundo?

Something I've been thinking about (and an issue in my org) is that it's a bit unknown if we are responsible for data within the organization or in charge of analytics.

If we are in charge of data, then metrics that get defined after us don't matter and it's up to the business units to figure that out. But then it falls to BI departments to get blame when things are mis-aligned

If we are in charge of analytics, then we have to enforce certain metric definitions within departments to ensure consistency across the organization. But then you don't have a lot of say on how data moves throughout the org to support these definitions

I feel like the true answer is "a little of both" but how do you manage that, just looking for some general thoughts. Thanks!

Personally I always ban Akali, any attempt to gank her ends up with her going invisible and wasting my W 😭

I’m a dev that’s interested in exploring the product side a bit more and I’ve been reading some good books on the topic. But I can’t shake the feeling that a lot of these books take 100 pages just to give the advice in the title.

Obviously, easier said than done but does anyone else get this feeling?

“Make sure executives are in alignment before perusing new projects”

“Ensure that a psychologically healthy environment is present”

“Write down the goals of the organization before committing to them”

And I’m just feeling a little… duh about it. Maybe I’m not reading enough into it and I respect the advice. But it all kind of reads the same to me. Maybe someone can shed some light on this feeling or what I should be taking from that kind of advice. Thanks!