Yuna<p>AI Groundwork == Automation.<br>Automate or Fossilize.</p><p>There's a delightful little study from McKinsey - they say automation boosts productivity by ~40%, slashes costs by ~50%.<br>But sure, keep doing your 17-step manual deployment and team standups to plan the next team standup.</p><p>Companies keep adding more agility, more process, more micromanagement, more Team Members.<br>Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, but with Jira tickets.<br>All in a glorious effort… Not to solve root causes.</p><p>Here’s the raw truth:<br>If your competitor automates first,<br>lowers prices,<br>scales like a virus on caffeine…<br>You're toast. Gluten-free if that makes you feel better.</p><p>You can't catch up.<br>Not when your developers are duct-taping new features onto a legacy monolith that’s older than half your interns.<br>You don't need more meetings.<br>You need fewer humans doing robotic work, and more humans solving human problems.</p><p>Let's make one thing painfully clear:<br>Automation isn't optional. It's not a feature, it's the operating system of survival.</p><p>You can't do anything wrong by starting automation.<br>You can only oversleep, drool on your quarterly reports, and wake up with a competitor eating your market share like cold pizza at 3 AM.</p><p>I've automated entire teams in the past.<br>Poof. Gone.<br>Their tasks now done better, faster, without needing coffee, motivation, or "mental health days".<br>Deploy with a button?<br>Yes. It exists.<br>You're welcome.</p><p>Automation reduced our tech stack. Fewer tools, fewer errors, fewer prayers to the CI/CD gods.</p><p>Now ask yourself:<br>What does your company really sell?<br>Disney sells memories.<br>Apple sells innovation.<br>Nike sells ambition.<br>Amazon sells comfort.</p><p>And you?<br>Random metrics? Profit graphs?<br>A slowly dying system wrapped in buzzwords?</p><p>Automate.<br>Not for the "Future".<br>For next quarter.<br>Or don't.<br>Just make peace with your fate as a beautifully inefficient relic.</p><p>What does it have to do with AI? Well, you need free resources to include AI into your company and not just add it somewhere.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AutomationFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AutomationFirst</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AIReady" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIReady</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DigitalTransformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalTransformation</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ProcessAutomation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProcessAutomation</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SmartWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmartWork</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FutureOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureOfWork</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BusinessStrategy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessStrategy</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TechLeadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechLeadership</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Scalability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scalability</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/EfficiencyMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EfficiencyMatters</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WorkSmarterNotHarder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkSmarterNotHarder</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/InnovationOverload" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InnovationOverload</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AutomateOrDie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AutomateOrDie</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LegacyIsLethal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegacyIsLethal</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DeployWithAButton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeployWithAButton</span></a></p>