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They Fired Their Developers for AI. Here's What Happened Next.

In 2025, tech CEOs made a promise: replace 80% of developers with AI. Save billions. Move faster. Innovate harder. Fourteen months later, they're staring at a $61 billion technical debt crisis, a codebase nobody understands, and developers who won't come back. This is the story of the great AI replacement disaster. And it's not over yet. In this video, Barely Human Labs breaks down: → Why AI-generated code became a $61 billion liability → The three disasters that destroyed the plan (Slop Code, Debugging Nightmares, Talent Exodus) → The real reason non-technical executives made catastrophically technical decisions → What happens next — for developers, companies, and shareholders Companies mentioned: Google, Meta, Microsoft, GitLab, Cognition Labs (Devin), Stripe, Klarna, Duolingo, Shopify Data sources: Gartner Technical Debt Report 2025, Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025, Bloomberg compensation data, Crunchbase startup tracking --- Subscribe for one experiment per week on modern life in the age of AI. We experiment so you don't have to. --- CHAPTERS: 0:00 — The Promise 1:45 — Act 1: Why They Did It 4:10 — Disaster #1: Slop Code 6:30 — Disaster #2: The Debugging Nightmare 8:45 — Disaster #3: The Talent Exodus 11:00 — Act 3: The Cost By The Numbers 13:20 — Act 4: Why Smart People Made Dumb Decisions 16:00 — Act 5: What Happens Next 18:30 — The Lesson --- This is Barely Human Labs. Minimal animation. Maximum reality. Why it sucks to be human in the age of AI — explained calmly with stick figures. #AILayoffs #TechLayoffs #AICode #SoftwareDevelopers #BarelyHumanLabs SOURCES & FURTHER READING Klarna AI Announcement (Official Press Release): https://www.klarna.com/international/... Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 (Salary & AI Sentiment Data): https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025 The Pragmatic Engineer — Gergely Orosz (Developer Market Coverage): https://www.pragmaticengineer.com Gartner Research on Technical Debt (Paywalled — cited in script): https://www.gartner.com/en/research/m... Cognition Labs / Devin AI ($175M funding): https://www.cognition.ai GitLab AI in DevSecOps Survey: https://about.gitlab.com/developer-su...