Too many leaders are stopping short: the half-measure of bringing the mandate without funding it. They aren't naming the cost, or, perhaps worse, they paper over it with shallow metrics that hide the truth (PRs and lines of code are up and to the right, we're faster! Nevermind that none of our ship dates or impact numbers have moved yet!).

You have to name the cost. You have to talk about the investment that a mandate (AI or otherwise) requires to be successful.