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0 pointssarchertech6d ago0 comments

Have you ever monitored and encouraged the use of a particular text editor or IDE? If you had an employee whose manager thought was a high performer, but you noticed they used notepad would you encourage that they regularly give vim a try?

The reason we force people to use Jira is because it only works if everyone uses it.

AI doesn’t work like that. If it does enhance productivity 50% then use will spread and the expectations of your line managers will naturally go up and the holdouts won’t be able to keep up.

Or only the exceptional ones will. And in that case why do you care how they do it?

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tetromino_5d ago

> The reason we force people to use Jira is because it only works if everyone uses it.

In my experience, AI out of the box is at first a useless gimmick - until someone starts seriously playing with it and defines a skill file for integrating it with some internal tool. And another person starts playing with it and figures out that AI is pretty good at using another internal tool but only if the tool runs in --silent=1 mode by default, so as not to confuse AI with too much logging output. And a third person figures out that it's actively dangerous to let AI some some other internal tool - but hey, there's a safer alternative, and which happens to perform better too. And pretty soon you end up with an ecosystem of business-specific scripts and .md files and skills and MCPs that's actually helpful 85%+ of the time. But the only way to get there is to get devs and power users tinkering with it.

sarchertechOP4d ago

In my experience all the md files just pollute the context and make it less likely to do what I want it to do. I’m at a huge org with thousands of power users doing all of this and I haven’t seen anything resembling the results you’re seeing.

But even assuming this is the case, you don’t create enthusiastic power users with threats (implicit or explicit) and metric tracking. The only thing that does is force people to do the minimum to keep their job.

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