When rolling out a new tool or process at your company, building excitement for it early is so critical. I think the exa...

When rolling out a new tool or process at your company, building excitement for it early is so critical. I think the example to emulate is Solomon Hykes' Docker demo at PyCon 2013. It was short, energetic, and solved an obvious problem. That 5 minute demo (5!) birthed the mass adoption of container workflows. And containers weren't new. FreeBSD jails and Solaris zones were around a decade+ already. Linux containers were a hack in comparison, but Docker got the devex ergonomics for OS virtualization right and ... excitement. I still remember the feeling watching that demo and the energy in the room popping through a youtube player.It's not easy or always possible, but shoot for that when selling to your devs. If they see the obvious problem and solution and the time it will save them, they'll drive the adoption. No gimmicks, mandates, revoking IDE licenses, or tying usage to their performance reviews required (looking at you, CTOs pushing AI).#softwarebrain #LLMs #AI