"AI hangover" feels like the right term. They went on an AI bender, shit out a massive unmaintainable code base nobody understands (and anyone who could have was laid off or fired months ago) then suddenly SHTF and they need to hire real humans to maintain it because Claude hiked their token multiplier by a factor of 9X.

I've heard of companies hiring interns and junior devs again to do the ditch digging work that's suddenly too expensive for AI to do with token price increases.

What is AI for then? We already know it can't do the work of a senior developer...