WalkerUse AI instead of hiring junior staff = stock price bump.
5 years later senior employees start to leave; there is no junior staff to promote and management panics.
Management does not want to spend money on new staff so they hire expensive contractors.
Contractors do a subpar job, charging 10x what an actual employee would cost (different budgets so its cool); and the company starts to go downhill and customers flee.
This starts a death spiral leading to either bankruptcy, acquisition, or restructuring.
The original management who approved the AI have all gone and cashed in their stock.
Just a guess at what is about to happen across the industry.
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2026/03/16/servicenow_grad_jobs_ai/
Daniel Gibson