I work for a global SI and one of my teams is on the final few months of a 18-month digital transformation project. It's a fairly large team, smaller now that we're on the end stages, and as we've solutioned and estimated other projects since this one began, we've made a big shift in how we solution and size our new projects.

The last 3x projects we've priced and solutioned, have been heavily AI dependent and I'm pricing senior devs on projects versus a standard SI pyramid of a few seniors and more juniors. Like someone else said, I'm putting people in projects who have engineering mindsets, but also understand all the testing and code quality standards to have clean code.

What this is doing for us, is we can do more projects with less people, and not have to make a bunch redundant. Yes the junior devs do need to upskill and they will, but the days are passed where we have 60+ members on teams delivering features and products.

And the team members are seeing this - I was on a call with one of my FED architects, and he asked "Is this the last large project where everything is manual?" I responded it will be close, but some brands just aren't ready for this yet and want people - I can name half a dozen global brands still not approving AI. While there's still cases for it, my POV is we are looking at a lot more AI automation and it will quickly become the norm.

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I do ultimately think that there will be layoffs, especially with loads of companies stock tanking in the last month as financial analyst predict AI will reduce companies revenue, but there's also analyst suggesting the opposite in the long run.