What's the worst AI productivity mistake you've made?
I'll go first: Spent 3 hours trying to get Claude to write my quarterly SE review. The output was so generic I ended up rewriting everything anyway.
Here's what actually works for AI in SE leadership:
→ Customer scenario generation (not generic ABC Corp anymore) → Demo feedback analysis (removes emotion, applies consistent frameworks) → Competitive research summaries (but never the final positioning)
The pattern? AI handles the prep work, not the thinking work.
My team's breakthrough came when we stopped asking "how can AI help?" and started with "what repetitive task is stealing time from customer conversations?"
Turns out the best AI use case for SEs isn't writing emails prettier — it's getting you back in front of customers faster.