The Engineers You Never Hired

There are two kinds of AI adoption happening right now. Only one of them actually matters.

The first kind looks like this: you take an existing process, figure out where you can insert an AI tool, and make it a little faster. Meeting summaries. Email drafts. The occasional research query. You shave 20 minutes here, 30 minutes there. You call it transformation.

The second kind starts from a blank page and asks a completely different question: i…