Maybe they could use a distillation process. Have the AI prompt the senior engineers repeatedly (don't do this). Like squeezing the oil from olives!
https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everyth...
But this is difficult to implement since AI doesn't have a body to follow someone around and it would take immense amounts of compute to do so using telemetry and cameras. You would literally be spying on employees 24x7 for weeks at a time with the express goal of replacing them someday.
Isn't this almost exactly what Zuck is trying to do at Meta?
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...