Jun 15, 2026 8 min read

🥨 Return on Tokens, Reliable Teams, Culture vs Innovation, Reorgs, Runbooks vs Checklists, Clean Code: TMW #486

Two AI-focused CTO events for your diary!

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This week's TMW is sponsored by Pensero - giving leaders objective visibility into delivery, quality, and AI impact across the organization.

Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the week!

We have two excellent AI-focused online events coming up in the next few weeks where I'll be interviewing two experts about how teams are bridging the gap between the old paradigms and the new. These will be absolutely unmissable, and there'll be time for Q&A for the audience, so please do join us!

On June 18th (this Thursday!) I'll be chatting with Johann Beukes from Svitla about what he and his teams have learned about control and its importance in team-wide AI adoption:

And then on July 8th, Carol Palombini and I will sit down for a chat about what happens when you face AI skepticism in your teams, and how to sell the transformation to them:

That's it, let's look at some links....

Andy @ CTO Craft

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