one of the most profound cultural differences between san francisco tech and elsewhere is that tech people see automation as axiomatically a good thing, and this idea predates ai by decades. most of a tech company is automating oneself out of a role by writing software or hiring

this comes from a culture where the tasks and work are infinite and the number of people who can credibly do them are very finite

you can see this even in the communications of a company like anthropic which takes outwardly pro-social positioning regarding warfare etc but gladly welcomes the automation of jobs