You’re such a heartless bastard, depriving those poor foxes in the forest of their food, by sheltering it.

The AI score will be one column in a table of all applications.
If you decline, your application will be shown in the same table, just without the score.

The HR person will sort the table by AI score descending and call the first 5.

And when they have their own lane:

Read “The Mythical Man-Month”.

Basically, a team of 5-8 motivated developers can create high quality, medium complexity software extremely fast.
But if the project is just a little too complex for one team of devs and you need more people, then you’ll need a lot more people. And a lot more time.

Cause the more people you add to the project, the more overhead you have. Suddenly you need to pull devs off coding to bring new hires up to speed. You need to write documentation on coding style guidelines, hold meetings, maintain your infrastructure, negotiate with hardware suppliers, have someone fix the server room’s door locks, schedule job interviews, etc. etc.