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Updated 6 Nov
Inside companies, AI adoption is uneven and mostly hasn't happened. Pressure to adopt a tool doesn't prove it helps
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- Writers and founders say AI adoption inside companies is uneven, and pushing a tool on staff doesn't prove it helps.
- Stephanie Walter reports that designers pushed onto AI tools got more rework and inconsistency, not faster projects.
- John Cutler and Elena Verna argue that mandates and confidence theater take away the agency real adoption needs.
- Most of this is opinion and first hand accounts, with little measured data on adoption rates.
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sylviabsky.app · 5 November 2026
Trying to complete my year-end self-evaluation and I have this gross feeling that because I can't slather it with "went all-in on AI all the time like a champion, 100x productivity gains, 14 agents codemaxxing awesomeness to the limit bro" that it will somehow be insufficient.
Thoughtworks Insightsmartinfowler.com · 28 October 2026
Fragments: October 28…a topic I kept coming across was how large enterprises were embracing this technology - or rather not. One participant used a lovely metaphor: corporations have acquired a Swiss-army knife, but are only using the toothpick. …