Executives Embrace AI, ICs Push Back

The hot take is that the AI adoption gap is really an incentives gap, not a hype gap. The people who own coordination love probabilistic leverage; the people who own correctness hate paying the error tax.

• –Execs are comfortable with chaotic systems, so AI’s variability reads as manageable rather than scary.
• –ICs are rewarded for precision, so every hallucination or bad suggestion creates review work and slows them down.
• –Speed-first orgs will usually adopt faster than quality-first orgs, which explains why startup teams often move first.
• –The article also nails the identity angle: AI can feel like it is devaluing hard-won craft, even when the stated goal is productivity.
• –Rollouts will work better when leadership redesigns workflows and expectations instead of just mandating usage.