AI and Agency
8 hours ago
- #AI Adoption
- #Psychological Safety
- #Team Agency
- Atlassian's study shows high-performing AI teams benefit from clarity, psychological safety, and a focus on outcomes rather than outputs.
- Engaged, empowered teams perform better regardless of AI, and bottom-up AI adoption often outperforms top-down mandates.
- Mandated AI adoption can lead to resistance, token abuse, and reduced effectiveness, as seen in cases like token leaderboards.
- People often enjoy using AI voluntarily but dislike being forced to use it, highlighting the importance of personal agency.
- AI-generated 'slop' is widely disliked even by its creators, revealing contradictions in effort expectations.
- AI increases output volume but often fails to deliver valuable outcomes, leading to projects with no users.
- AI excels at individual productivity but struggles to foster team collaboration, where the greatest value lies.
- The tension between AI tools and systems like CMSs reflects differing views on team collaboration and sustainable workflows.
- AI can enhance agency for dev teams compared to restricted platforms, but this benefit isn't evenly distributed across all team members.