[PeterStuer]

"Hiring someone gave my VP more headcount and therefore more clout"

Which is the sole reason automation will not make most people obsolete until the VP level themselves are automated.

[dlivingston]

No, not if the metric by which VPs get clout changes.

[monkeyelite]

That metric is evaluated deep in the human psyche.

[thfuran]

The more cloud spend the better. Take 10% of it as a bonus?

[0xpgm]

It's about to change to doing more with less headcount and higher AI spend

[Nasrudith]

Automation is just one form of "face a sufficiently competitive marketplace such that the company can no longer tolerate the dead-weight loss of their egos".