If Your Engineers Only Get Thirty Minutes to Learn, That Is Not Their Failure. It Is Yours.

You called to talk about AI adoption. But you do not know your value streams, your engineers get thirty minutes a week to learn, and you are still defending manual QA that produces no ROI. That is not an adoption problem. That is a leadership problem you built and now own.

Daniel called on a Thursday afternoon. That is not his real name, and I am intentionally blurring the identifying details because the pattern matters more than the person. He had the tone, the one I hear from leaders who are genuinely trying and genuinely stuck. Somewhere between frustrated and exhausted.