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Why compliance dashboards can't tell you what's actually happening with AI on your engineering team
More than 500 engineers described what happened when their companies chose mandates over conversations. The dashboards showed adoption. The engineers showed compliance. What didn't appear anywhere was what wasn't working.
You get 3x of whatever the path of least resistance produces.
Jono Herrington pushed for higher velocity. The team delivered. Then he sat at a lunch table bragging about doubled output while his engineers knew exactly what they'd done to produce that number. The same pattern is playing out in every AI productivity mandate right now.
When AI scales faster than your engineering culture, the codebase tells you the truth.
Six weeks after giving our team AI coding tools without guardrails, the codebase looked like a junk drawer with a CI/CD pipeline. Our first instinct was to fix the AI config. The right answer was to fix the humans first.