How have you promoted AI usage in your team?

On my last team, I noticed that I kept spending a lot of time getting started on test cases for small backend changes, and I was also asking a more senior engineer similar questions over and over. I tried using an AI tool to generate a first draft of test ideas based on the ticket and the existing code, then I checked each suggestion manually and threw out the weak ones. After it helped me on a couple of tasks, I showed another new engineer how I was using it during a pairing session, especially the part where I verified everything myself instead of trusting the output. We both found it useful for getting past the blank page, but not for final decisions or debugging. A week later I checked back with them, and they said it was still helping them start faster, so that became the main way I recommended it.

In my current role on an internal tools team, I helped introduce AI in a pretty practical way by focusing on the repetitive work that was slowing people down. Our team spent a lot of time rewriting customer support notes into clean incident summaries, so I started using an AI assistant to draft a first version from the raw notes, then I edited it for accuracy and tone before sharing it. After that worked a few times, I showed the rest of the team my prompt and the checklist I used to verify names, dates, and action items so we could all use it safely. I also set the expectation that it was there to save time on formatting and first drafts, not to make decisions for us or replace judgment. A couple of teammates adopted the same approach, and we ended up turning it into a shared template in our team docs so new hires could pick it up quickly.