We did a similar Claude code mandate a few weeks ago.

Motivation was people being so allergic to tests and automation, that making them use superpowers produced better code, but also started adding a test pyramid.

The mandate was actually phrased in a way that you must produce industry standard code, and if you struggle with it you can use cc to bridge the gap.

Honestly I worry that this way devs will produce higher quality code, but will not understand why, how to measure the “quality” and steer towards it themselves.

At this point though the founders were pretty adamant with the code quality and lack of tests so this seemed like a reasonable way for the company, and I am curious to see how such a mandate affects code, deliverables and individual’s knowledge.

So far it seems to be working as intended, but it is early days.