The companies that went all-in on “AI-first engineering” are discovering their apps are slower than dial-up, their costs are exploding on unnecessary compute, and their “10x engineers” are actually 0.5x after the AI tax.

Meanwhile the senior devs who understand some simple concepts like caching and concurrency will soon be printing money on cleanup gigs, architecture rescues, and “please fix what the robots broke” contracts.

Should I be relying this as my retirement strategy?