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Why saying "use more AI" doesn't work: the survey, the prompt and what to do next
Next to the doom-and-gloom headlines, "use more AI" sounds like adopt or die. This guide goes with No Manual Yet Issue 11. It gives you an 8-question anonymous survey that asks your team whether they see you leading by example, a prompt that builds it for your own team, and practical pages on what to do with each pattern of answers.
You've told your team to use more AI, or you've been told to say it. Next to the doom-and-gloom headlines, "use more AI" sounds like adopt or die. It also skips the three things that actually get people going: framing AI as help with the tedious bits, a real job done with them, and a peer to watch. This guide helps you find out whether your team actually sees you leading by example, and what to do about whatever they tell you.
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- Next to the doom-and-gloom headlines, "use more AI" sounds like adopt or die. This guide goes with No Manual Yet Issue 11. It gives you an 8-question anonymous survey that asks your team whether they see you leading by example, a prompt that builds it for your own team, and practical pages on what to do with each pattern of answers.
- The 8 survey questions in order, with their answer formats, and the one-line note to send with them.
- A copy-paste prompt for ChatGPT or Claude that builds the same survey for your team in Google Forms or Microsoft Forms, kept anonymous.
- How to read the answers, starting with the issue's key and going further with combinations, such as when people see you use AI but nobody has sat with them.
- What to do when someone writes that they're worried, and how to tell the team what you heard.
Is your team actually seeing you lead on AI?
Next to the doom-and-gloom headlines, "use more AI" sounds like adopt or die. This guide goes with No Manual Yet Issue 11. It gives you an 8-question anonymous survey that asks your team whether they see you leading by example, a prompt that builds it for your own team, and practical pages on what to do with each pattern of answers.
It accompanies Why saying "use more AI" doesn't work., where the method is explained in context.
- The 8 survey questions in order, with their answer formats, and the one-line note to send with them.
- A copy-paste prompt for ChatGPT or Claude that builds the same survey for your team in Google Forms or Microsoft Forms, kept anonymous.
- How to read the answers, starting with the issue's key and going further with combinations, such as when people see you use AI but nobody has sat with them.
- What to do when someone writes that they're worried, and how to tell the team what you heard.
- What to do this week, over the next few weeks, and when you run the survey again.
- Where to start if you don't use AI on real work yet.
- The by-Friday aim: one survey sent, one list of tedious jobs and one 1:1 booked.
Still to come, in the download
- Hypothetical example: what a leader does first
Free. The link shows here and lands in your inbox. Nothing else.
Who's behind it
Matt Hertel. An engineer who has also run the company. Built and sold apps solo. Fractional CTO in startups. Every Sunday, one job start to finish, in No Manual Yet.
Every Sunday, one job start to finish. Read No Manual Yet
It goes with this issue
Issue 11 · 4 Oct 2026: Why saying "use more AI" doesn't work.
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