Your Engineers Are Resisting Your AI Rollout. 3 Things Turn That Around.

Your engineers may be resisting your AI rollout, and another demo will not fix it. Here are the three things I tell leaders about AI adoption: the employment commitment you make in public, the narrow pilot that proves value, and the human work you protect on the other side. Full briefing: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/ai-rollout-resistance?r=1z4sm5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true My Links 🔗 👉🏻 Newsletter: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/ 👉🏻 X: https://x.com/natebjones 👉🏻 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nate.b.jones 👉🏻 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nate.b.jones What's really happening inside an AI rollout when the team quietly resists? The common story is that resistance is a training problem, but the real question is whether leadership has made an honest deal about jobs, careers, and what the work becomes. In this video, I share the inside scoop on how I walk leaders through an AI rollout their team will actually join: - Why an AI rollout stalls when leadership will not name the job risk - How to make a time bound employment commitment someone can actually keep - What a first pilot needs before you pick the use case - Where the human work goes as agents take more of the first draft Leaders can require the change, and the rollout only holds if they can also tell people where that change leads. Chapters: 00:00 Your AI engineers probably hate that you're doing AI 01:48 Principle one, the commitment you make publicly 03:10 Address the elephant in the room about jobs 04:16 How to talk about headcount with integrity 05:09 Why Jensen Huang's framing lands with teams 05:38 Principle two, pick one specific place to start 06:40 Pick work that moves the bottom line 08:35 The Uber token budget contradiction 08:59 Why team level managers decide the outcome 10:01 Principle three, from pilot to real scale 12:37 Technical details become people details 15:09 What stays human as roles change Listen to this video as a podcast. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0gkFdjd1wptEKJKLu9LbZ4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-news-strategy-daily-with-nate-b-jones/id1877109372