--- title: How to answer "Just use AI and move faster" | daily.dev description: An engineering manager newsletter shares advice for responding to stakeholders who push teams to 'just use AI and move faster.' Drawing on a conversation with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-answer-just-use-ai-and-move-faster--cxtxyher6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to answer "Just use AI and move faster" | daily.dev og:description: An engineering manager newsletter shares advice for responding to stakeholders who push teams to 'just use AI and move faster.' Drawing on a conversation with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-answer-just-use-ai-and-move-faster--cxtxyher6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CxTxYHER6.png og:image:alt: How to answer "Just use AI and move faster" og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to answer "Just use AI and move faster" **[Manager.dev](https://daily.dev/sources/zaidesanton)** · 6 min read · 18 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary An engineering manager newsletter shares advice for responding to stakeholders who push teams to 'just use AI and move faster.' Drawing on a conversation with a Senior EM at Harvey, the piece revisits the classic iron triangle (scope, time, cost, quality) and offers three tips: talk openly with your team about AI's real capabilities and limits, personally experience using AI coding tools like Claude or Codex before pushing others to adopt them, and give stakeholders balanced, specific answers grounded in real experience rather than vague reassurances. It closes with a reminder for managers not to shield their teams from difficult business pressure conversations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How should an engineering manager respond when a business stakeholder says to just use AI and move faster? Give a balanced answer built on three parts: show what the team already does with AI to move faster, acknowledge current gaps and limitations, and share a concrete plan to address them. This works best after talking with the team about AI's real capabilities and personally using tools like Claude or Codex to build actual context before responding to the pressure. _daily.dev surfaces manager perspectives on navigating AI-driven pressure from business stakeholders._ ### What is the iron triangle in software project management and how does it apply to AI-driven speed pressure? The iron triangle states that scope, time, and cost are interconnected trade-offs, and adjusting one without changing the others degrades quality. When leadership pushes for faster delivery with AI tools, the same logic applies: cutting scope, adding time, or adding people are the real levers, and refusing to trade any of them means quality suffers instead. _Managers weighing AI-fueled deadline pressure can find framing like this through daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@fabooy961** · 0 upvotes > ..it propably makes coding faster - but does not resolve shitty manager decisions. Now where's my salary raise madafakka? > >  ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What enterprise AI can’t do for you \(yet\)](https://daily.dev/posts/what-enterprise-ai-can-t-do-for-you-yet--gw9zvqgii) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How tech leaders can turn AI hype into real team productivity](https://daily.dev/posts/how-tech-leaders-can-turn-ai-hype-into-real-team-productivity-gmhzmigm0) · Atlassian · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Engineering Manager](https://daily.dev/posts/the-engineering-manager-tvlyneaho) · Tech Lead Digest · 0 upvotes · 1 comments - [Engineering’s AI reality check](https://daily.dev/posts/engineering-s-ai-reality-check-5zje3pvu6) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break](https://daily.dev/posts/when-moving-fast-talking-is-the-first-thing-to-break-kllqiegcd) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#company-culture](https://daily.dev/tags/company-culture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-answer-just-use-ai-and-move-faster--cxtxyher6) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How to answer \"Just use AI and move faster\"","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-answer-just-use-ai-and-move-faster--cxtxyher6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-answer-just-use-ai-and-move-faster--cxtxyher6"},"datePublished":"2026-09-29T06:16:33.430Z","dateModified":"2026-09-29T06:16:54.670Z","description":"An engineering manager newsletter shares advice for responding to stakeholders who push teams to 'just use AI and move faster.' 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