[ravenstine]

Exactly. That's so many levels of poor reasoning that it's hard to feel bad for anyone, other than maybe the developers whose work never saw the light of day.

Plenty of people, including those with prestigious titles, who are detached from the reality of software development. In some cases they "hire some geeks" to solve a problem a big company already solved, and like in this case there are other times where they hire some big company with an official sounding name because, surely, they can get things done.

Honestly, it gives me hope that my job as a web developer won't be wiped out by AI too soon. There's enough foolish management types out there hiring the wrong humans to work on futile projects that I figure I have at least another 5 years before I have to resort to food delivery or basket weaving.