AI for engineering productivity seems to be widely misunderstood to be a magic button that produces the same result, but faster and more cheaply. And based on that reasoning, you should want to force employees to tokenmax, because, why wouldn't you want to get more results but faster and cheaper?

A more nuanced view would be something like:

* AI lets you achieve your roadmap somewhat faster, but:

  * You incur tech debt that's similar to if you hired a dev temporarily for the features. You don't necessarily have someone on the team that understands the new code.

  * Similarly, you aren't upskilling your junior team members. So you aren't getting skill/wage arbitrage as much as before.

  * You will complicate the product. P2 features are P2 for a reason, but AI can cause them to be included and complicate the product for lower marginal gain.