I don't think we're replacing anything. Just looking at my own workplace, we can have multiple X increases in productivity and still have enough work to do. In

I don't think we're replacing anything. Just looking at my own workplace, we can have multiple X increases in productivity and still have enough work to do. In IT for example, we're building nice software, but some bigger project have been running for years and are nowhere near done. Accelerating this would mean we can do more projects with the same budget, not that we will slash people and keep doing the same number of projects. Sure, this won't be true for every role and organization, but for many this will definitely be true.