Cracking the AI Adoption Code with Camille Fournier

Watch the entire CTO Hour: https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/cto-hour-with/0642572261191/0642572261191-video404087/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=free+trial&utm_content=cto+hour Getting your engineering team to actually adopt AI—not just talk about it—is one of the hardest challenges facing engineering leaders right now. And Camille Fournier, CTO and author of _The Manager's Path,_ knows exactly where most organizations are getting stuck. If you're an engineering leader frustrated by slow AI rollout, or an engineer trying to figure out how to level up in an AI-driven world, you’ll want to watch this excerpt from CTO Hour. Camille cuts through the hype to explain why legal and contract negotiations are the real bottleneck for most enterprises, why the companies pulling ahead are the ones that invested in CI/CD long before AI arrived, and why building a dedicated developer experience team has gone from nice-to-have to urgent overnight. She also makes a strong case for why managers need to give engineers explicit, on-the-clock permission to experiment, drawing a sharp parallel to how TDD adoption quietly failed whenever managers stayed silent on the subject. And her concept of "interpassivity"—the trap of letting AI run while your brain checks out, missing the moment things start to go off the rails—is something every engineer working with AI tools today needs to sit with. Follow O'Reilly on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oreilly/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/OReilly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oreillymedia BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/oreilly.bsky.social