[paulhauggis]

His naive approach will lead to either him or his entire department getting replaced by a computer.

[redthrowaway]

Which is a good thing. There's no point in having a bunch of people do manually what can be done automatically with greater efficiency and at less cost. Keynesian economics does not apply to individual organizations.

[getsat]

The point is that it's not a good thing for him for that scenario to unfold.

[robryan]

And with any luck he will then earn a heap more from the company to maintain and improve his program.