Shannon Ryan’s talk at AgileRTP on why AI adoption fails when organizations fixate on tools instead of the human systems that use them.

The tension between enterprise security and the mandate to innovate with AI isn’t new, but AI has compressed it from a manageable chronic condition into an acute crisis where either side losing can kill the company. The problem isn’t the people. It’s the structure.

The engineers most threatened by AI aren’t the ones who can’t learn it. They’re the ones who can’t tolerate being bad at it. The real bottleneck is courage, and courage is a memory, not a trait.