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"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.




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


That metric is evaluated deep in the human psyche.


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


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


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".




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