Alistair Croll (@acroll) / X

Alistair Croll

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Alistair Croll

@acroll

Author (@leananalytics w/@byosko; @evilenough w/@emilyjaneross) & functional government (fxgov.com). I chaired that conference you went to that didn’t suck.

Montreal, Quebec

Joined March 2007

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Alistair Croll
@acroll
Feb 26
The asymmetry of the modern age has been: the institution has machines and bureaucracy; the citizen has a phone and their patience. What happens when the citizens can build machines of their own in a matter of hours?
The machine fights back
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Alistair Croll
@acroll
Jul 23
I guess the Kobayashi Maru isn’t so funny when an AI tries it.
Alistair Croll
@acroll
May 14
Once, we mounted hard drives. Now they mount us.
Jean-Michel Lemieux
@jmwind
May 13
Joined a new AI-native company this week and it’s kind of wild how different it feels already. The laptop arrived, I logged in, and an agent basically took over from there. It set up my dev env, pulled repos, fixed dependency issues, got permissions approved, pointed me at the
Alistair Croll
@acroll
Apr 22
This is astonishingly important for anyone in IT to understand.
Peter Girnus 🦅
@gothburz
Apr 21
I am a Senior Program Manager on the AI Tools Governance team at Amazon. My role was created in January. I am the 17th hire on a team that did not exist in November. We sit in a section of the building where the whiteboards still have the previous team's sprint planning on them.
Alistair Croll
@acroll
Feb 11
“The experience that tech workers have had over the past year, of watching AI go from "helpful tool" to "does my job better than I do", is the experience everyone else is about to have.”
Matt Shumer
@mattshumer_
Feb 10
Article
Something Big Is Happening
Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock...