@glyph thank you for the text!
It puts substance in my feelings that AI "automation" is wrong for lack of a better word even though I think everyone's highest goal in a job should be to automate oneself away. But that is massively at odds with how jobs work, sadly, so you try that for a year, then realize you are rewarded more for creating tech debt and hiding knowledge from colleagues until some rando CEO says "no no no we're not replacing you, AI will _support_ you". It's all so fatiguing