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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.
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
Institutional knowledge takes years to replace.