Why are they forcing it?

They are forcing bc the goal is to reduce the cost center that SWE is, and are aware engineers will fight it because we don’t think it’s there yet, but they don’t want to wait for it to get there, they want to feed us into it so we can all train it to get there.

Your chosen tools didn’t have business impact, you did. LLMs have (or are thought to have) direct business impact. So you’re no longer in charge of deciding whether you use it.