https://www.secdev.uk/blog/tags/change-management/ Recent content in Change-Management on guy@secdev.uk Hugo en-gb Guy Dixon | guy@secdev.uk Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.secdev.uk/blog/leadership/4.6-leading-engineers-afraid-of-being-replaced/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.secdev.uk/blog/leadership/4.6-leading-engineers-afraid-of-being-replaced/ <p>The anxiety is real. I've heard it in one-on-ones, in retrospectives, in the quiet conversations after meetings. Engineers who've spent years building expertise are watching AI tools do in seconds what used to take them hours, and they're wondering: how long until it does everything I do?</p> <p>Some leaders dismiss this anxiety as irrational. &quot;AI is just a tool,&quot; they say. &quot;It'll make you more productive, not replace you.&quot; That's probably true in the medium term, but dismissing the concern doesn't make it go away, it just teaches people not to voice it. And unvoiced anxiety doesn't disappear. It festers into disengagement, resistance to AI adoption, and quiet job searching.</p>