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If you’re the CIO/CTO/etc. obviously you wouldn’t be fired, but any other position is useless down to the dev.

Dev teams should be leaner now, with maybe at most a director as their manager up to executive level.

As for ‘how much software do I really need?’ Well, what sort of company is it? Do you have internal applications to support your orgs? If you seriously need to ask ‘how much software do I need?’ Then you should just fire yourself.

I don’t think your point is meritless, but this is specifically a discussion about that top-10% dev. The one doing this type of work is not the one who will be let go.

I know a lot of people think that the AI tools level the playing-field, but we aren't experiencing that. The guy that did this translation is doing more tickets than the other 4 software devs combined. And it's not because they are low-effort tickets. That's also on top of the 6 hours a week of meetings he has that the other devs don't.