The operators, managers, and technical teams I write for will spend the next year having two kinds of conversations about AI. The first is the one most people are still having: which vendor should we use, what does it cost, and what happens if they raise their prices?
The second is the one a smaller group has already started: what does our team own, and what runs regardless of whether others are having an outage today?
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