Almost every product and engineering organisation has adopted AI tools. Very few have changed how they work because of them — and that gap is where most AI initiatives quietly fail.
Where AI adoption actually succeeds
Adoption isn’t about picking a model. It’s about the organisational changes that make AI genuinely useful: codifying the judgment your best people carry, building governance that doesn’t just block progress, and understanding why individual productivity gains don’t automatically become team-level gains. I write about the practical side of AI adoption — drawn from running it inside Wall Street English’s product and technology organisation, not from vendor demos. That means the sequencing problem (why you have to codify before you automate), the coordination cost of AI acceleration, and what governance looks like when it isn’t just a slide in a board deck. If any of this is a live problem for your organisation, get in touch.-
No Human Reviewed That Code. Instagram Went Down. Again.
On the morning of Friday 12 June, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Threads went down simultaneously. Over 100,000 users reported problems within the first hour. The outage ran for around five hours, was classified internally as a SEV-0, and would become one of the more consequential examples of what happens when AI code review replaces human…
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AI Productivity Metrics: Token Spend Is the New Lines of Code
Your AI productivity metrics are rising. Token spend, PR volume, deployment frequency: all up, all appearing on executive dashboards, all being used by people with authority to make consequential decisions based on them. The industry has been here before. The numbers are different. The mistake is the same. The KLOC playbook In the 1970s and…
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Why AI Adoption Really Stalls
The people who hang back longest in AI adoption programmes are rarely the least capable. I have noticed this pattern repeat across teams: AI adoption resistance concentrates in the experienced, the committed, the people who care most about doing good work. The usual explanation is fear of change, or attachment to the status quo. I…