Reduced Frontend Team: Leveraging Backend Engineers and AI to Maintain Development Efficiency

The company's CPO-driven strategy to drastically reduce the frontend engineering team and reassign UI/UX tasks to backend engineers and AI tools like Claude risks degrading code quality and accumulating technical debt. Senior frontend engineers diverted to on-call rotations lose focus on innovation and institutional knowledge. Centralized decision-making without engineering input blurs role boundaries and fosters frustration, threatening long-term development sustainability.