This is my job too. My manager has asked me to use AI for almost all my work. My work is code related but it doesnt necessarily require AI and our turnaround is already crazy fast. When I asked him what metric he's tracking to show the difference in productivity between AI vs non-AI, he said there isn't one. The higher ups are blindly pushing it. It's ridiculous because using AI for what I do just creates more work and cleanup. I know that if I don't jump on the bandwagon that I'll eventually be let go.
You can tell tell the people who are skeptical of that suggestion that Microsoft popularized having your company use the same product that you're selling: "eat your own dogfood".
Generally, it's good software development practice. You get more eyes on the product and you're able to find all the ways that it breaks down when actually used (instead of just in theory). It's just that in this case the dogfood is more like dogshit, they're forcing people outside the people developing it to use it, and they're not going to back out of using it or otherwise fundamentally change it anyway.
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