MENLO PARK—Software infrastructure firm Datavance announced Thursday it had completed its AI transition by laying off its seven remaining AI-Native Senior Engineers — the specialized role created in 2025 to oversee AI systems that had replaced the company’s previous engineering staff — and would immediately begin recruiting three AI-Native Principal Engineers to oversee the AI that would now be overseeing the AI. The departing engineers, who earned between $310,000 and $380,000 annually, had been responsible for reviewing AI-generated pull requests, escalating AI-detected errors to the orchestration layer tasked with managing the AI that produced the errors, and attending a Tuesday stand-up at which they confirmed they had nothing to report. Datavance said an updated orchestration layer would absorb the review functions previously handled by the AI-Native Seniors, while the three incoming AI-Native Principals — each commanding a base salary of $420,000 plus equity — would provide the human judgment layer deemed necessary to maintain board confidence that a human judgment layer existed. Each of the seven departing engineers received a separation notice generated by Datavance’s AI communications platform. The notices opened: “I wanted to reach out personally.” The company confirmed that its prior engineering organization — 94 engineers laid off in January 2025, who had built and maintained the software now operated by AI — had performed roughly equivalent functions at an average salary of $168,000. A Datavance spokesperson said that was not a relevant comparison. More satire here : https://aiweekly.co/the-artifice submitted by /u/Justgototheeffinmoon
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