A Bengaluru-based software architect has claimed that his company laid off around 90 per cent of its tech workforce as part of an AI-driven restructuring, while believing it can hire developers again if the strategy fails because of an oversupply of talent in the city.Sharing his experience on Reddit, the techie said only three architects remain in the company after the layoffs and are now expected to handle most of the work."That's 90 percent of all the tech roles in the company. Reportedly the remaining 3 architects including me will be doing all the work from now on until the axe comes for us," he wrote.According to the employee, the layoffs were driven by two factors: the company's adoption of artificial intelligence tools and a lack of demand for new product features from customers.He claimed that front-end developers were among the first to be affected because AI tools were already handling much of their work. "Front end developers are first to go cos 100% of React + Chakra UI code in the last 4 months was written by Claude code Chakra UI plugin," he wrote.Explaining the company's rationale, the techie said management believes it can reverse course if the restructuring does not produce the desired results within six months."Their POV is that if this restructuring does not pay off let's say in 6 month we are gonna come to know and then we can again hire back devs as devs are dime a dozen in Bangalore with oversupply," he said.The employee also described a recent project that involved migrating customers from traditional email-password logins to a system supporting Okta single sign-on (SSO), OIDC integration, user migration and database mapping across multiple applications.He claimed that work which would normally require contributions from product managers, designers, developers, QA engineers, architects, deployment teams and operations staff was completed in less than four working days with the help of AI."This is basically major haul work across PM, Design, Dev, QA, Arch, Deployment, OPS team. We did all of this in less than 4 working days instead of 2 months it would have taken," he wrote.The architect said the AI tool helped identify security vulnerabilities and assisted with testing and development, though it still required human oversight through prompts.When another user questioned how such a small team could handle the workload, the techie replied that one architect would manage full-stack development, another would oversee DevOps and technical operations, while a third would lead quality assurance with a small supporting team.The post sparked debate among technology professionals. One commenter argued that companies using AI solely to reduce headcount may be missing a larger opportunity."If AI delivers 3× productivity, some firms see that as a reason to cut the workforce to one-third. But that misses the bigger picture that their competitors might be using AI to move 3x faster," the user wrote.Another tech worker shared a similar experience, claiming that their startup recently laid off most of its developers and QA staff to cut costs and increase investment in AI technologies.The discussion comes amid growing concerns within the technology industry about how advances in generative AI could reshape software development roles and hiring practices in the years ahead.Disclaimer: The claims in this article originate from a Reddit post. The Economic Times could not independently verify the statements made by the users.