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Communication & influence · Persuasion under skepticism

You want the team to adopt an AI coding assistant into the workflow, but two of your most senior engineers are convinced it produces subtly wrong code and erodes review discipline. How do you win them over?

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I start by conceding their point entirely, because they're not wrong and pretending otherwise loses them: yes, it generates plausible code that's subtly wrong, and yes, unmanaged it can rot review discipline.…

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