It’s great that you want your developers to be productive. They want this, too. What I struggle to understand in many managers is the stark contrast between their directive adoption of brute-force AI and their indifference to straightforward techniques that have been proven to be more impactful than coding assistants.
This isn’t a new problem; it’s common for a top-down productivity drive from management to be a smokescreen that hides a deeper problem in their organization. Often, the underlying issue is managers who have lost touch…