Of course eventually, chickens will come home to roost. Amazon has been laying off tens of thousands of engineers over the last few years, sometimes claiming to be replacing them with "AI".
The result is brain drain, and thus outages big and small:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
> A Resume.org survey of 1,000 hiring managers found that 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.”
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