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AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink

Under pressure to embrace AI, developers are growing frustrated by misguided mandates and are left to clean up any collateral damage inflicted on their codebase.
April 08, 2025

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

Almost half of C-suite executives said in a recent survey that AI adoption is “tearing their company apart” as a rift emerges between leadership and the employees adopting such tools.

While 75% of company leaders thought their AI rollout over the past 12 months has been successful, only 45% of employees said the same.

“Even those C-suite leaders who believe their AI integration is proceeding smoothly are handing down policies and tools to a workforce that is more frustrated than they are,” Axios reporter Megan Morrone wrote of the findings.

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