"I was hoping AI had progressed enough so I could fire you. But you failed to make it so. Therefore, you're fired!"
Or: you wasted too much money on failing to replace yourselves so now I have to lay you off. Which is one of the two possible grand outcomes of the AI bubble, which both result in laying people off, because that is all these companies know how to do as a response to stress.
Bottom-line win-win! All hail the shareholder value!
tokenmaxxing will be a funny footnote like nfts on the tonight show 2 years post-hype