# AI CIO

> A weekly letter to CIOS on how they should be considering artificial intelligence as part of their strategy from enterprise IT Veteran, John M. Willis.

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## Posts
- [💡 The Roads Not Taken](https://aicio.ai/p/the-roads-not-taken): A Thought Exercise on Counterfactual Regret and Organizational Learning
- [💡 Are OKRs Enough?](https://aicio.ai/p/are-okrs-enough): Goals and metrics matter, but they are not a substitute for systems thinking.
- [💡 Not Another Jevons Paradox Article](https://aicio.ai/p/not-another-jevons-paradox-article): Why history suggests AI will expand knowledge work more than it replaces it.
- [💡AI Token Whiplash](https://aicio.ai/p/ai-token-whiplash): Corporate AI strategy has officially entered its whiplash era
- [💡Business Value in the Age of AI](https://aicio.ai/p/business-value-in-the-age-of-ai): Why AI success is about value, not usage
- [💡AI Slop Is Really About Judgment](https://aicio.ai/p/ai-slop-is-really-about-judgment): The Erosion of Accountability, Ownership, and Trust
- [💡Asking Better Vendor Questions](https://aicio.ai/p/asking-better-vendor-questions): Guide for Evaluating AI and Agentic Systems in the Enterprise
- [💡 AI Isn’t Failing; Execution Is](https://aicio.ai/p/ai-isn-t-failing-execution-is): A bad system will beat a good agent every time
- [💡 The Lesson From The Coal Mines](https://aicio.ai/p/the-lesson-from-the-coal-mines): The AI J-Curve And Sociotechnical Thinking
- [💡AI Boom And Burnout](https://aicio.ai/p/ai-boom-and-burnout): Are We Headed Toward Another Burnout Cycle with AI?
- [💡From AI Hype to Human Systems](https://aicio.ai/p/from-ai-hype-to-human-systems): What Leaders Still Get Wrong
- [💡The Metrics Trap in the Age of AI](https://aicio.ai/p/the-metrics-trap-in-the-age-of-ai): What Deming Would Say About AI Metrics
- [💡A Prototype Is Not Production](https://aicio.ai/p/a-prototype-is-not-production): (Yes, Even in 2026)
- [💡Autonomy Without Verification](https://aicio.ai/p/autonomy-without-verification): A Deming Lens on AI Agents
- [💡 AI Assistants, Agents, Orchestration](https://aicio.ai/p/ai-assistants-agents-orchestration): What’s Real? What's Risky?
- [💡 Industrializing AI Will Decide the Winners](https://aicio.ai/p/industrializing-ai-will-decide-the-winners): Being First Is Not Enough
- [💡Fresh Minds Outsmart the Experts](https://aicio.ai/p/fresh-minds-outsmart-the-experts): My Experience at DevOps for GenAI Hackathon Toronto
- [💡Audit Can Not Keep Up With AI](https://aicio.ai/p/audit-can-not-keep-up-with-ai): Why Audit Keeps Falling Behind and What You Can Do About It
- [💡AI Is Boardroom Business](https://aicio.ai/p/ai-is-boardroom-business): How Corporate Boards Are Adapting To AI And Cyber Threats
- [💡“Failing AI” Narrative Misses the Mark](https://aicio.ai/p/failing-ai-narrative-misses-the-mark): AI Is Entering An Operational Era
- [💡The Paradox of AI Reports](https://aicio.ai/p/the-paradox-of-ai-reports): Why Two Major Reports Tell Very Different Stories About the Future of AI
- [💡When AI Runs at Enterprise Scale](https://aicio.ai/p/when-ai-runs-at-enterprise-scale): Anthropic's Recent Reliability Incident
- [💡The ChatGPT Moment](https://aicio.ai/p/the-chatgpt-moment): When Financial Capital Meets Consumers
- [💡The Shrinking Window of Defense](https://aicio.ai/p/the-shrinking-window-of-defense): When AI Turns Exploits into a Commodity
- [💡Compression of Software & Analysts](https://aicio.ai/p/compression-of-software-analysts): How AI Is Compressing Growth, Eroding Moats, And Reshaping Demand
- [💡The Hidden Risk in AI-Created Code](https://aicio.ai/p/the-hidden-risk-in-ai-created-code): Findings from Veracode's 2025 GenAI Code Security Report
- [Aaron Swartz and the Ethics AI Forgot](https://aicio.ai/p/aaron-swartz-and-the-ethics-ai-forgot): Ensuring Ethical AI
- [💡Polymorphism of AI Agents](https://aicio.ai/p/polymorphism-of-ai-agents): Securing the Future of Generative AI
- [💡Announcing Our First Authors Retreat](https://aicio.ai/p/announcing-our-first-authors-retreat): Turn Your Book Idea Into A Reality
- [There Is No Moat](https://aicio.ai/p/there-is-no-moat): Rethinking Software Strategy
- [AI CIO Updates 7/5/25](https://aicio.ai/p/ai-cio-updates-7-5-25): Quick Updates and Highlights
- [When Malware Talks Back](https://aicio.ai/p/when-malware-talks-back): The Rise of AI-Evasion Attacks
- [Important Announcement on Special Edition Books](https://aicio.ai/p/important-announcement-on-special-edition-books):  A Delay on Special Edition Prints & Insights CIOs
- [LLMs Are Entering Your Supply Chain](https://aicio.ai/p/llms-are-entering-your-supply-chain): Analysis of the 2025 JFrog Software Supply Chain Report 
- [Rebels of Reason Is Here!](https://aicio.ai/p/rebels-of-reason-is-here): Release of My New Book on the History of AI
- [You Need Confidential Computing](https://aicio.ai/p/you-need-confidential-computing-a3e55494aa651bab): Securing the Future of Generative AI
- [Special Announcement: Rebels of Reason Is Here!](https://aicio.ai/p/special-announcement-rebels-of-reason): A Special Release and Thank You to the Leaders Shaping the AI Future
- [NIST’s New Cyber AI Profile Deserves Your Attention](https://aicio.ai/p/nist-s-new-cyber-ai-profile-deserves-your-attention-87543750abbd0a7c): Rapidly Advancing Cybersecurity for the AI Era
- [New NIST Metric Could Tackle AI Vulnerabilities](https://aicio.ai/p/new-nist-metric-could-tackle-ai-vulnerabilities): LEV, LLMs, and the Evolving AI Security Challenge
- [ LLM-Based Code Validation for DevOps](https://aicio.ai/p/llm-based-code-validation-for-devops-891a2aafaa227e47): Examining CodeSift for AI-Augmented Code Validation 
- [New Blueprint for Software Transparency](https://aicio.ai/p/new-blueprint-for-software-transparency-bc77e8c8abd85587): The intersection of AI and SBOMs