Why it took months to build the AI workforce — and the mindset shift required

The reason it takes months to get an AI workforce functioning well is not primarily technical — it's psychological. You have to take stock of every assumption you've made about how work gets done and how you live day to day, and you have to be willing to change habits you've held for decades. For someone who has been an overachiever, that's genuinely jarring. The speaker frames it plainly: 'That thing I've been doing for almost 40 years — I feel like we should change it.' That kind of honest reckoning with your own work patterns is the prerequisite. Without it, you end up automating old habits rather than redesigning for what's actually possible now.