When the AI coding team gets laid off: a QA engineer's account of an AI-generated platform left without maintainers

Short summary

A QA engineer recounts how their company created an AI-only coding team that generated an entire platform from an HTML demo with no requirements or PM. After the company hired a PM to retroactively write requirements and QA began testing, the entire AI coding team was suddenly laid off — leaving a platform with no engineers to maintain it. The story illustrates the organizational risks of replacing human engineering teams with AI-only units and the fragility of AI-generated codebases without human ownership.

• •Company built an entire platform using an AI-only coding team with no PM or requirements
• •The entire AI coding team was laid off, leaving the platform with no maintainers
• •Illustrates organizational risks of AI-first team structures without human engineering ownership

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