Field notes on leading engineering teams through AI adoption.

What we measured, what we changed and what broke while rolling out AI proficiency across 600+ engineers.

Latest essay

Feb 25, 2026 9 min read Series · Part 1

Stop Measuring AI Adoption by Who Has Copilot Open

Weekly active users tells you nothing about AI proficiency. A metric-driven framework that works better.

The vanity number

72%
weekly active across ~600 engineers. It counted a tab-complete and a generated test suite the same.
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Series

AI Proficiency for Engineering Orgs

Part 1 published. Next: Ownership and accountability. Why “you own every line you ship” and “writing code is the easy part” mattered most in the rollout.

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Engineering is changing fast. This blog is where I write up what works, and what doesn’t, when an engineering org adopts AI for real. Working on something similar? I want to hear how you handle the measurement piece.