Getting Your Own Team to Actually Use the Agent You Built

Part 1 of 2 on agentic system adoption. A 25% bump in individual AI usage correlates with a 1.5% drop in delivery throughput and a 7.2% drop in delivery stability. That's not a hot take — that's the 2024 DORA report , surveying thousands of engineers across hundreds of orgs. Worse: in a randomized controlled trial from METR on experienced open-source developers , engineers expected AI tools to speed them up by 24%, reported a 20% speedup afterward, and were actually 19% slower . Perceived uplift