March 25, 2026
AI Adoption in Organizations, Grigory Oster Style
Bad advice for those who want to spend the budget and change nothing
/ AI bad-advice playbook 2026
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1. AI Adoption in Organizations, Grigory Oster Style
Bad advice for those who want to spend the budget and change nothing
2. Bad advice teaches by contrast
3. AI adoption repeats digital transformation
4. 00. Nine pieces of bad advice
5. A business card first, not a process
6. Less understanding, bigger budget
7. The feeling of motion beats motion
8. Put AI on a separate island
9. Promise broadly: harder to check
10. Throw a festival without data access
11. Collect 142 use cases company-wide
12. Of 142 use cases, 90 are duplicates
13. Don't touch the foundation
14. Spread AI on top like mayonnaise
15. Add an AI assistant mid-queue
16. 3 days → 5 days, but with AI
17. Measure activity, not impact
18. So far AI has mostly added work
19. Talk AI, pay for manual control
20. Love AI on slides, hide your tasks
21. No results? Just a valuable stage
22. 10. The inconvenient truth
The board quietly asks: where is the impact?
23. At best, AI speeds up drafts
24. AI didn't fail; the attempt did
25. This technology isn't bought; it's called reform
26. Start with the process that hurts
27. Measure impact, not activity
28. To stay out of this book
“From Classic PDLC to AI-Native Development”
“From AI-Native Development to AI-Native Organization”
Grigory Oster — “Bad Advice”
29. Thank You!
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