TLDR 2025-05-16

Despite significant investments in GenAI tooling, many engineering leaders still struggle to see the expected return on investment as developer adoption lags behind.

Join this live discussion with DX's CEO Abi Noda and CTO Laura Tacho to learn about the organizational and technical barriers preventing widespread GenAI adoption and practical strategies to overcome them.

On the agenda:

• The most common obstacles to AI adoption, based on learnings from 500+ companies
• How to identify specific blockers in your own engineering organization, and what to do about them
• How to guide engineers to leverage AI for day-to-day development work

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