Scaling AI Adoption in Engineering

Chapter 3. What’s Your Strategy?

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One of the most influential things a CTO can do right now is to help the rest of the senior leadership team and the board rigorously think through the implications and opportunities of AI. This chapter takes a broader perspective than previous ones: You’ll think about how exposed your business is to AI, the audiences you need to consider when setting your AI strategy, and the most important decision your executive team needs to make - how aggressively to invest in AI.

This chapter is particularly relevant to CTOs, but even if you’re not a CTO, give it a skim. It’ll help you evaluate the implications of your company’s AI strategy.

It’s Your Job

It’s frustrating. I get it. Your CEO just forwarded another link to an article claiming that 80% of code can be generated and that you should either fire most of your team or be delivering against the roadmap at breakneck speed.

The CFO emailed you a link to a company offering to generate all of your tests and asked why ...