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Surely, this means Ford will spend more time getting engineers to train AI and then they will fire them again.
Ford has engineers that make quality vehicles? Since when?
We will see. The point is that Large Language Models cannot produce anything that is not a copy of the work of someone else, while Ford engineers need to be creative to design new cars.
We will see if they can achieve firing many engineers in the next round, but from what they openly say there that is their plan. It is unlikely they will ever get rid of all engineers, but using AI as an excuse, redundancies seems what they want. Not about the same level of expertise, but factory workers are widely used to train the LLMs that will replace them. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/24/indian-factory-workers-told-film-themselves-for-ai-robots
Probably some engineers to make a new vehicle platform-
Then instead of multiple teams turning the platform into multiple vehicles with multiple trim levels, you'll have a single team that makes one vehicle or a few different classes of vehicle on a platform then the 'AI' does the rest.
To use VW as an example-
One senior engineering team at VW or Porsche designs the platform (ie. MQB)
One or few junior engineering team(s) at VW designs vehicles (ie. VW Golf, Jetta, Tiguan)
A few specialty vehicles get all-human treatment (ie. 911)
A marketing team at Audi, Skoda, etc will design their generational design language
The rest is 'AI' generated from the platform, vehicle type and desired design language.
Stripping VW Group of multiple engineering teams, mostly outside Germany.
it makes you wonder what those ford guys are like; knowing that this is going to happen, but they rejoin ford anyways.