Tawanda :fedora:<p>I think <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> usage mandates in companies are a bit misguided and if I was a conspiracy theorist I'd think more was afoot than just "increasing developer productivity".</p><p>It reminds me of a certain episode of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/hbosiliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hbosiliconvalley</span></a> (which I still think is the best show ever made about the tech industry), when the head of Pied Piper's biggest investor, Raviga, instructed Richard to give Eklow (an AI company) free compute on their network because they had blown through their $112m investment. It was essentially a threat - do this, or risk making your biggest investor unhappy.</p><p>This is obviously not researched or anything, but I can imagine a situation where some investors out there who have poured millions into <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genai</span></a> companies start to realise that they might not get as much ROI as they expected. In that scenario, they'd turn to other companies in their portfolios, and instruct those at the top that they need to drive AI adoption by essentially forcing it on their employees.</p>