The pressure is on. Every leader, from startups to Fortune 100s, is being asked the same question: “What’s our AI strategy?” But behind that question is a more fundamental one that keeps engineering leaders like us up at night: “Is my team ready for AI?”
It’s one thing to buy a new tool or spin up a new service; it’s another thing entirely to transform a team’s skills and mindset. The truth is, most engineering teams aren’t AI-ready out of the box. And that’s okay. The journey from a traditional software team to one that can confidently build, deploy, and manage AI-powered features is a marathon, not a sprint.