Like system engineers need to learn some new VM terminology, and network engineers need to know how to configure an IPSEC vpn to azure.

Its a far cry from the "Your job will be replaced by a puppet script" that we were being threatened with.

This might have happened to the top 5% of businesses, but crucially, everyone below that went and spent millions of dollars on reforming their business in the cloud, but ended up just moving a clone of their prod on prem environment into the cloud, and didnt make enough of a change to take advantage of the efficiencies of cloud. So they hired more engineers, not less, and they chuffed on.

At the end of the day, the cloud was a win for your CTO. The actual practical experience and costs of the cloud are irrelevant. AI is much the same.