> They offered the license for free and exerted pressure on the C-level, as you can imagine there were heated conversations and some choice language between mgmt and engineering on this topic.

Thanks to AI, heated conversations between management and engineering is mostly a thing of the past. Unless the engineer wields an outsized influence, they will be shown the door and replaced with a lower-priced AI-augmented engineer. Which might explain the increasing frequency of shitshows we are seeing lately.