Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?

Yes, this is pretty much the reality around my bubble, with OKRs for how much is being used in practice, can hardly wait for the bubble to burst.

Using AI powered tooling is one thing, better IDE workflows, writing and voice recognition, translations and so forth.

Copying text around into and out of a chat window is worse than just writing COBOL, and at least COBOL is deterministic.