

Sounds like you’re not enjoying your work too much, so applying elsewhere, even if it’s just to test the market is not a bad idea. Should always be doing this anyway, every couple of years to know where you are compared to rest of your peers.
You naturally do not say or mention this to your current colleagues. You leave your notice only after you’ve signed the new contract. You should always leave gracefully, without burning your bridges (no matter how tempting that might be), because you never know. Might need to use them for reference one day.
Play the game.



And anyone who actually has tried to use AI to do anything serious, knows it doesn’t work as a worker replacement. It can (possibly) make some of your engineers more effective but it can’t replace them. That’s just a fever dream.
Maybe a chatbot on your webpage can save some first line support costs, but it will more likely expose you to data leaks and anger your customers because no one wants to interact with it.
The usecases are narrow and none of them include ”getting rid of people” or ”lowering salaries”. It’s the other way around. AI implementation is a risk with lot of investment and (at the moment) dubious ROI.