alt Hacker News> If you want to see if the tools work, why don't you just ask your employees? Like any normal employer would?
because that would require actually admitting that employees are the people in an organisation who are responsible for the success of that organisation, rather than the people higher up the org chart.
And here we are. AI use mandates are a humiliation ritual, at least how I've seen them. Because it's not just a matter of making the employees use AI; public criticism or speaking about the drawbacks are also punished. It's get totally on board or get out; if you're not completely gung ho, despite the testimony of your lying eyes, maybe you don't have what it takes to work here, son. It's something they use as a shit test, just like the North Korean dogma that Kim Jong-il scored a perfect 18 holes-in-one every time he stepped on the course: are you willing to compromise your values, to the point of mouthing naked untruths, in total submission to the company's leadership?