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Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
(defragzone.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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There's also the tribal knowledge of people who've worked somewhere for a few years. There's always a few people who just know where or how a particular thing works and why it works that way. AI simply cannot replace that.
Institutional knowledge takes years to replace.
Depending on the place, it's the "work insurance" - companies would usually think twice before firing the only person who can understand the spaghetti. Now they won't need said person to generate "working" code