Show skeptics evidence on their own code, not AI hype
alex_verem · x · 2026-07-20
The post argues that you should not try to evangelize AI to skeptics with hype.
Instead, the effective approach is to show evidence on their own codebase. In the cited case, a healthcare engineering team had already tried internal AI experiments with inconsistent results, so the outside team began with a real code review and demonstrated that AI could understand and improve existing code. The broader lesson: hype backfires, while concrete proof on real work builds adoption.
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