Our engineering leadership went all in on AI about three months ago. Every ticket, every PR review, every design doc had to go through their shiny new enterprise copilot setup. They even started tracking adoption metrics in standups. So we used it. For everything. Pasting entire codebases into context windows for trivial questions. Regenerating docs that already existed. Running the same prompts five times because the output was mid and nobody wanted to manually fix it. Nobody was being malicious, we were just doing what they asked. The bill hit finance around month four. I don’t know the exact number but our director went from “AI-first engineering culture” in slack to radio silence on the topic within about two weeks. The adoption tracking quietly disappeared from sprint reviews. They didn’t announce anything, just stopped bringing it up. Now we’re back to using it when it actually makes sense, which turns out to be maybe 20% of the time. The mandate killed itself. submitted by /u/unfortuantelyshelove
Originally posted by u/unfortuantelyshelove on r/ClaudeCode