The detached, analytical tone (despite this supposedly happening to them), the simple character tropes, and obvious 'deeper message' are clear signs this is just a fable.
It's written by AI. I have made LLMs adopt the same tone by prompting to be engaging. Short sentences. Every point intended to land with impact. Artificial gravitas. I consider that a failed experiment and rewrote it, rather than posting to Medium
You can get LLMs to write in that tone, because it’s a common tone that people write in. Especially for LinkedIn and MBA essays.
This is basically the average rustacean's wet dream. But I can probably point out half a dozen reasons (without even thinking) why this wouldn't work in a realistic environment. Unless that one guy is literally a savant and the others are negative net contribution random monkey devs who were twiddling their thumbs all day at best. And in that case the end result would probably be the same, it has nothing to do with the specifics of this story.
I was half expecting it to end with "And Kabir's real name was Anthropic's Claude Code."