CEOs think that their companies are adopting AI carefully.

But that's only from the top-down perspective.

In many cases, individual employees are adopting it aggressively: "I use it all the time for everything."

Magical duct tape is hard to use in a structured way (e.g. top down) but it's easy to use by anyone to jury rig anything.

AI is the most individualistic disruptive tech in recent memory.

That implies the most disconnect between leadership and employees.

In the past, tools like Figma, DropBox, and Slack grew via disruptive guerilla enterprise strategies: individual employees would adopt it and then later it would be officially approved by IT.

These had a collaborative aspect that made them naturally viral within an organization; you rarely would use the tools secretly or alone.

But AI is a bit different; it's not about collaboration with other employees, it's about making your own work more efficient.

Using LLMs at work is a bit like a cheat code… something you often don't want your management (or even your peers!) to know.

That means that there will likely be much more adoption of AI in businesses than the businesses think.