“Won’t somebody think off the job creators?” they’ll unironically tell you after laying off thousands of people.

“he was drunk and whacked out of his brain, he coded it up in assembly overnight before he passed out, but now could not for the life of him remember how the algorithm worked”

Yup, it exists.

And when the car is drivable you do a demo for the customer to show what it’ll look like, somebody in the room will ask what the flight ceiling is and things first go very quiet and then very loud. After much discussion it turns out they actually need a flying car. Of course there is no additional budget for that.

Some of them move to marketing and become sexual predators

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That’s the same people that never figured out using blinkers or speed limits so that sounds about right.

It could also be possible that AI doesn’t write code but becomes the new software. Hook it up to libraries, contractions, databases and pump it full of the verbatim ramblings from the client, sales guy and manager. Sure, it costs a magnitude more power to run but it’s up in no time.

Then hire a few consultants that used to be senior engineers for an outrageous amount to trace the weird hallucinations and replace the mission critical part with real code.

The future is going to be wacko.