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If AI actually made people faster and more productive, they could simply set faster timelines and people would use the tools.
There are AI mandates because the people in leadership are stupid and dishonest. "Return to office" has the same shape. For many people working from home is healthier and more productive, and it's better for the environment not to commute as much, but the emotional needs of leadership are primary.
I want to work with your team. I work with a sysadmin who, rather than using the up-arrow, will scroll up in his terminal to copy / paste the last command he ran. Even if that command was just "ls -l".
It's maddening to watch and horribly inefficient. But he's always done it that way.
Many people simply do not seek a faster way of doing things.
Teach him ctrl+r, life changing when you plug out into fzf
I do not want to work with such people, and rite incompetence is something any organization should try to combat.
But forcing period to use AI tools will only mask this problem.
Right. But if you're a soulless manager, and you set faster timelines, you PIP and fire the people who don't make it. They'll use the tools or be replaced.
It's the same as an AI mandate, except less stupid. (It can still be stupid if you set the timelines impossibly fast, but management is not known for being smart or informed)
I wouldn't do this as me because I'm not a soulless manager.