Sure, they may churn out a lot more code, but what is the quality of that code? What is the security of that code?
Can you prove that the code they are generating is actually having a material impact on the bottom line?
If the AI tools suddenly became too expensive to use, could those engineers go back to doing things the way they once did?
If you want to vibe code, feel free to do that on your own personal projects. For everything else, you need to be able to demonstrate that what you’re doing is not just fluffing your lines-of-code metrics, or your tokenmaxxing metrics, and actually demonstrate real-world positive impact on your bottom line.
Maybe in a few years, we will get to a point where no one will need those skills anymore, and all that stuff will be done locally, so we don’t need any more massive datacenter projects that suck down all the power and all the cooling and create more problems than they solve.
But we are not there today. And the way that the AI bubble is already crumbling, I’m not convinced that we will get there any time soon.