Cannibalism

The tech industry, which built its fortune by disrupting other sectors, now faces AI technology threatening to cannibalize its own workforce—particularly software developers. Unlike other professions where AI quality is subjective and unpredictable, software development is uniquely vulnerable because code is objectively verifiable, vast training data exists from open-source repositories, and AI labs are staffed by the very engineers best positioned to automate their own roles. This creates bitter irony as tech leaders face the same disruptive force they once weaponized against other industries.