Do CIOs need to create an Enterprise AI Harness?

**Brian Gracely** (0:04)
Good morning, good evening, wherever you are. Welcome back to The Enterprise AI Show. I'm your host, Brian Gracely. And today, a couple of things. I'm recording this, I know a day late. I said I'm gonna try and do this on Fridays and Wednesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Getting this out a day late, work has been kind of overly busy, which is a good problem, but it got me a little behind. So I'm putting this one out on a Saturday. I'm gonna try and get back to the Wednesday, Friday schedule next week, and try and be diligent about holding to that. I think it's a little better than anybody is trying to just include podcasts in their weekends. But anyways, I hope everybody's doing well. It's June 13th, the day after SpaceX launched. Whether or not people care about that, it'll probably end up being in one of your portfolios, probably through some sort of index fund or something like that. But did relatively well. I think it was up about 20%, which is kind of what was expected. I was thinking about it.
Everybody has kind of a story as to how certain things relate to your life.
I've got, I believe, three, what we'll call sort of Kevin Bacon's, you know, one degree away, two degree away, Kevin Bacon's, from SpaceX in one way or another. First one for us is if you go back to, I believe it's episode 193 I'll put a link in the show notes. We interviewed Andy Weir, who was the author of, I believe it's Andy Weir, yeah, the author of The Martian. Is that right? Yeah, Andy Weir.
Aaron was real excited. We got a chance to interview Andy Weir, who was the author of The Martian way back in the day. So this was probably probably more than 10 years or so. Aaron was very excited about it. I'd never read the book, but I did read the, I did watch the movie. I don't necessarily have any interest in going to Mars, although that seems to be one of the goals of SpaceX. So that's our first Kevin Bacon. Our second one is we had a family friend, a neighbor of ours growing up, who their daughter went on to be part of the NASA team that helped launch and land the Mars Rover. So that's my second Kevin Bacon that's sort of related to SpaceX. My third one is that guy that I grew up with, guy I went to middle school and high school with, not necessarily a friend, but somebody I knew and I knew the name. Gentleman who at the time used to be called Kevin Brogan, now goes by the name Brogan Bam Brogan. I only bring him up because he is now often mentioned as one of the early members, early employees of SpaceX. So probably got super rich or will be getting super rich. So those are my three, one or two degree Kevin Bacon's away from SpaceX. Doesn't really matter, just makes for sort of interesting conversation. Anyways, today what I want to talk about in the show is again, one of the, you know, what I call top 10 things Enterprise CIOs are thinking about is they're thinking about their Enterprise AI strategy. And this one is all about harnesses and really the idea of, you know, is it possible, will it be possible to create sort of an enterprise harness? So the ability to create kind of company wide ways in which your company is going to interact with AI, your tools are going to interact with AI, your employees are going to interact with AI. And I've heard it as somewhat of a conversation that's beginning to happen, essentially as we're hearing more about sort of harness engineering, but those are always kind of specific to certain tasks. And I want to kind of explore a little bit if we're going to eventually see in the future, companies trying to build out more of what would be kind of an umbrella type of enterprise AI harness across a lot of different functions and capabilities. We're going to dig into that right after the break.
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