Feel free to make your own decisions about this stuff but know that there are people with lots of experience and success in the industry using llm coding tools successfully (I’m one).

I am in a situation where ai was mandated, I was skeptical, but took it as a chance to try it out. I now can’t imagine going back.

Yep, if you know what you're doing, if you have good software dev and review practices and if you manage to aim the AI foot gun away from the body, then the productivity boost is absolutely gigantic.