Ah, so ultimately the push is still coming from the top...

As in "prisoners pushed for a less painful form of torture" rather than "prisoners pushed for an introduction of torture".

I didn't mean "had to use" literally. More that it was basically the only option available.

AFAIK there's no stats tracked at the individual level on LLM usage that make it into performance evaluations. The only metrics being looked at are changes deployed to prod per developer per week, which is a the team level.

I'm a conservative user of LLMs and haven't been pushed to use them more by anyone besides peers who are LLM zombies, but I can ignore them.