The dashboard measures adoption.
Today's lead is a metrics dashboard for AI adoption., which lands squarely on something Arnold Britto argued on Ep6, "70% Cloud Projects FAIL. The Culture Fix Nobody Talks About." His case was that transformation programmes don't die of bad technology, they die of people not coming with it. As he put it on the show: "Senior leadership in the company, they follow metrics, and culture is an intangible metric. You cannot measure it, and hence leaders kind of ignore it. When leaders ignore it, the people don't follow it, and when there is no adoption by the people doing the cloud migration or an AI initiative, tech fails."
What it actually means
This is the counterweight to item one, and it's worth holding both at once. Getting visibility on AI coding spend is a genuine step up from flying blind. But the moment a number exists, it becomes the target. and the thing that decides whether your AI rollout works is still the unmeasurable bit: whether people trust the tool, whether they've been trained, whether the ones quietly ignoring it have a reason nobody asked about. Arnold's practical answer was small, visible wins and peer champions, not mandates. If you're about to put a coding-agent dashboard in front of leadership, pair it with one question the dashboard can't answer: ask the low-usage team why.
Culture is an intangible metric. so leaders ignore it, and that's exactly where the AI rollout dies.
Source: Brew Bytes Ep6 — Arnold Britto · Sunday 26 July 2026