I don’t know for sure but I suspect internally the incompetent middle management layer are pushing AI usage as a metric

Yeah this is reportedly happening at all the big tech corporations.

The CEOs, SVPs, VPs, etc. are bullshitting each other that AI is multiplying productivity SO MUCH, because that’s what everyone else is saying too. But each of them isn’t actually seeing that happen in their company/org, so they figure that’s because their underlings simply aren’t using AI enough, and the only way to fix the productivity expectation gap is to enforce more AI usage