Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors

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Can replacing human expertise with AI actually work in complex engineering? Ford discovered the hard way that it can't, rehiring 350 engineers after an AI-driven cost-cutting effort failed to preserve institutional knowledge or mentor junior staff. Readers view the move as predictable schadenfreude, with skepticism that AI hype has outpaced capability for large-scale corporate operations.