Second-chance adoption

Tools that land on retry: initial rejection because the workflow need didn't exist yet, later conversion when it does. alejandro-ao on herder: "didn't think it was for me... then I tried it again and I haven't been able to stop using it" — the gap was him starting to run multiple agents daily. Same shape as omer-hamerman arriving hostile and converting, and dhh dismissing early agents ("I was not seeing what Toby was seeing") before Opus 4.5. Adoption timing tracks the user's workflow evolution, not the tool's quality curve.

Sources: Alejandro AO, DevOps Toolbox, DHH