https://naoko.github.io/tags/adoption/Recent content in Adoption on the art of simplicityHugoen-usSat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://naoko.github.io/posts/2026-07-18-coding-agent-adoption-ladder/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://naoko.github.io/posts/2026-07-18-coding-agent-adoption-ladder/<p>Boris Cherny, who built Claude Code, published <a href="https://x.com/bcherny/status/2077929379661844559">Steps of AI Adoption</a> this week: five steps he keeps watching teams climb. I did what everyone does with a maturity ladder and tried to find myself on it. The answer was messy: partially step 2, partially step 3, one foot on each. (The rung names below are my own gloss on his five steps.)</p> <p>That&rsquo;s the norm. Most devs I know sit somewhere across rungs 1 to 3, rarely on one clean step. So here&rsquo;s the ladder, and what actually changes as you climb, with most of the attention on the 2-to-3 jump where the leverage is.</p>