• companies replace the development of front-end and public facing programmes with algorithmically generated, bloated code

• the savings from cutting labor are served up to investors as profit

• companies replace the development of back-end public facing programmes with algorithmically generated, bloated code

• the savings from cutting labor are served up to investors as profit

• companies replace the development of server-side programmes with algorithmically generated, bloated code

• the savings from cutting labor are served up to investors as profit

• at every point, the workload for troubleshooting and bug-fixing increases while staffing decreases; remaining employees are encouraged to use algorithmic generators to provide code patches

• the savings from cutting labor are served up to investors as profit

• an exodus of critical skilled labor continues, individuals carrying the trend further than companies' initial wave of layoffs was intended to impact

• something very fundamental and (relatively) ancient brakes, and the skills required to address it no longer exist within the traditional industry

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