Not pointing fingers (it's not my money they're spending keeping the other team in business), just saying that if the logic is "actually, our cloud spend looks

Not pointing fingers (it's not my money they're spending keeping the other team in business), just saying that if the logic is "actually, our cloud spend looks better than ever, maybe we can lay off the people whose job it is to do that?" then they are not looking at me because I have a different title. My big saves are all in the category of "I was in there anyway and noticed that X was enabled. Do we need that on?" so I look like a thoughtful engineer who is alert for waste. Anyway all of this is a bit of a joke obviously. I know that layoff decisions aren't going to be made based on looking at individual people, or even teams. Still, it can't really hurt me to save my employer money (as long as it isn't my own salary, or my colleagues' salary), especially in a tough macro environment. Perhaps I'm even saving some significant amount of emissions and therefore marginally delaying the end of all human life, or marginally reducing demand for energy at a time when it's tight. Thousands of engineers doing the same all at once can probably significantly hurt the hyperscalers' business though.