AI has to be dull before it can be sexy

This week in New York, my Oracle team ran workshops for enterprise developers on building retrieval-augmented generation and agentic applications. Interest was so strong that we quickly had to figure out how to double the room’s capacity (much to the fire marshal’s chagrin). Interest in AI was clearly off the charts. But AI fluency was not. It was a different vibe (and audience) from what we’ve seen in a course we built with DeepLearning.ai, which attracts a more advanced audience ready to build...