BySarah Choudhary,
Forbes Councils Member.
Sarah Choudhary is CEO of ICE Innovations and executive advisor with expertise on quantum AI, ethical technology and sustainable innovation.
A CTO at a mid-size SaaS company told me last spring that he had cut his QA team by 60% and let the AI handle it. He sounded proud. Six months later his team was rehiring, shipping slower and explaining to the board why three preventable production incidents had cost them an enterprise contract. He is not unusual. He is the pattern.
We keep talking about vibe coding and AI adoption as if the only question is whether developers will be replaced. That framing misses the story. The story is that a specific kind of executive, the one who needs a progressive headline every quarter, has been running an uncontrolled experiment on your workforce. The data on that experiment is now in, and it is not flattering.
