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5 Signs Your Team Is Using AI Tools Wrong

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

You gave your development team AI tools. Copilot licenses for everyone, access to coding agents, the whole package. A few weeks later, you notice: the results you expected aren’t materializing. Features aren’t shipping faster. Quality hasn’t improved. And when you ask, you get shrugs.

This isn’t an isolated case. In client projects and workshop requests I receive, I see the same pattern: the tools are there, but the impact isn’t. The cause is almost always the same — it’s not the tool that’s missing, it’s the enablement.

Agentic Coding in Teams — Why Enablement Matters More Than the Tool

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

Your team has Cursor subscriptions. Or Copilot. Or Claude Code. The invoices are paid, the tools are installed, and now AI is supposed to boost productivity. Except it doesn’t. A few developers experiment, most carry on as before, and nobody feels like anything has changed.

The problem isn’t the tool. The problem is that a subscription isn’t enablement.

A look at the current state

At JavaLand 2026, during my talk “Context Is Everything,” I asked about 50 developers where they stood on the AI adoption scale — using Steve Yegge’s 8-stage model , which ranges from “Zero or Near-Zero AI” to “Building your own orchestrator.” At level 1, all hands went up. By level 3, it got lonely: only four or five hands. From level 6 onward — not a single one.

AI in Software Development — What SMEs Actually Need to Know

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0200

Your development team says: “We should start using AI tools.” The question isn’t whether they’re right — the question is: what does that actually mean? What does it cost if you get it wrong, and what does it cost if you do nothing?

This article is written for both sides of the desk. For the CTO who needs to explain to the board why AI tools in the dev team make sense — and for the CEO who wants to understand what the team means when they talk about “coding agents.”