IT has been automating its lunch away for decades and now even more people work in IT. A paradox. There's no field more cannibalistic than IT. On top of it, most software is open source and yet salaries are high. Apparently making so much of our field free was not a disaster, another paradox. More recently, even AI is doing the same trick - years of task specific work replaced with a prompt and two examples executed by a huge model. No large training dataset needed. That's why we need even more people deploying it now, because it can solve so many tasks previously too difficult to even attempt.