Of course this is just their intention and flies in the face of reality once you begin losing institutional knowledge from layoffs and natural attrition and the technical debt starts accumulating so you need people to clean it up.

I’m the only developer at my job and we have mountains of technical debt that come just from me. The one time I tried using AI, it just made that debt accumulation exponentially worse and I’ve just finished a 4 month long brain melting re-write of out entire system by hand.

I can’t imagine being somewhere that I had to take on the technical debt of other experienced developers leaving, and my own, and and AIs…