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> I have been told I should never be editing code directly and been told I must use AI tooling by various higher level execs and managers

Wow, this is really extreme. We certainly got to this point faster than I expected.

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To be fair, it's the higher level folks who are too far removed from things to have any actual authority. I've never heard a direct single-team engineering manager something like that. But yeah, CEOs say crazy crap. And we're definitely there, though to be fair, his exact quote was "I insist everyone try to have AI generate your code first before you try making any direct changes". It's not _quite_ as bad as what I described. But then the middle management buys in and says similar things. And we now have a company level OKR around having 80% of software engineers relying on AI tooling. It's a silly thing to dictate.

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