Geoffrey Moore
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Geoffrey Moore. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Geoffrey Moore's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The sequence I got wrong was not a sequence of tasks. It was a sequence of people.
When I stood in that room in Trivandrum and told twenty engineers they were about to become superheroes, I was telling the truth. The capability was real. The twenty-fold multiplier was measurable. What I had not measured was which of those twenty people were ready to hear it, which needed proof before they could move, and which needed something I had not even thought to build — a story about who they would become on the other side.
I treated the room as one audience. It was five.
Geoffrey Moore has spent three decades mapping the invisible fractures inside every audience that encounters a new technology. His insight is deceptively simple: the