My company isn't backfilling positions anymore and we had a ~10% company wide layoff about 2 weeks ago. My team was told to use AI to fill in the roles that wer

My company isn't backfilling positions anymore and we had a ~10% company wide layoff about 2 weeks ago. My team was told to use AI to fill in the roles that were lost on the team [0]. What's changed in the workflow is a lot really. We do a lot of documentation, so most of that boilerplate is not done via AI based workflows. In the past, that would have been one of us copy-pasting from older documents for about a month. Now it takes seconds. Most of the content is still us and the other stakeholders. But the editing passes are mostly AI too now. Still, we very much need humans in the loop. We don't use copilot as we're doing documentation, not code. We mostly use internal AIs that the company is building and then a vendor that supports workflow-style AI. So, like, iterative passes under the token limits for writing. These workflows do get pretty long, like 100+ steps, just to get to boilerplate. We're easily 100x more efficient. Four of us can get a document done in a week that took the whole team years to do before. The effort is more concentrated now. I can shepherd a document to near final review with a meeting or two from the specialist engineers, that used to take many meetings with much of both teams. We were actually able to keep up and not fall behind for about 3 months. But, management see us as a big pointless cost center of silly legal compliance, so we're permanently doomed to never get to caught up. Whatever, still have a job for now. I guess my questions back are: - How do you think AI is going to change the other parts of your company than coding/engineering? - Have you seen other non engineering roles be changed due to AI? - What do your SOs/family think of AI in their lives and work? - How fast do you think we're getting to the 'scary' phase of AI? 2 years? 20 years? 200 years? [0] I try to keep this account anonymous as possible, so no, I'm not sharing the company.