In many places it's demanded by upper management that devs use AI.. so even if engineers wanted to avoid using it, they would have to meet their quotas.

This is what happens when executives suffer from AI psychosis. They were already impatient, now with AI all they care about is feature velocity.

The faster they can hit that refresh button to see the features, the quicker sales can close the deals for them.

AI has basically sold them to wet dream.