Resisting the AI rollout
Your senior engineers are dragging their feet on the AI rollout, and leadership is getting frustrated.
Leadership reads it as obstruction. The engineers experience it as protecting the quality and standards they earned, and nobody has said either of these out loud.
Each week, both sides dig in a little harder.
How we'd handle it
We sit with the engineers and talk through the architecture and the decisions behind it, down to the implementation — being credible there is what earns the real conversation.
We lead the senior people to reveal what they're actually protecting: the standard they believe in. Then we bring that to leadership as a concern, and shape a rollout that keeps both the standard and the pace.
Where we've done this
I was the most junior person on the team when I pushed for a real shift in how we built software, a genuinely tough ask for engineers in real-time defense who'd been doing it their way for years. It worked.
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