Not that you're wrong, but here's the argument from the other side: - AI is supposed to be a great productivity booster, but no one has figured out a way of ac

Not that you're wrong, but here's the argument from the other side: - AI is supposed to be a great productivity booster, but no one has figured out a way of actually measuring developer productivity, so we'll just use the proxy of measuring whether they're using AI. - Developers won't want to use AI because it's threatening to them, so we'll mandate it. - Consistency and fungibility of human resources is incredibly valuable. 0.5x developers can use AI to get them up to at least 1x. And 10x developers? We're actually better off if the AI "slows them down" and makes their work output look more like everyone else's. 10x developers are actually a liability, because it can be hard to quantify and measure their contributions, and so when things become worse when they end up leaving, it feels intangible and impossible to fix.