{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/61/ai-can-automate-large-parts-of-jobs-without-eliminating", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny"}, "post": {"id": 61, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/61/ai-can-automate-large-parts-of-jobs-without-eliminating", "kind": "reading", "summary": "AI can automate large parts of jobs without eliminating roles; restructuring is what converts task automation into headcount leverage.", "details": ["Two jobs can each become 50% easier while both roles survive. Capturing the saving requires someone to cross the old role boundary and absorb the other's remaining work.", "Broad AI access acts as distributed process discovery: employees find repetitive transformations, handoffs and bottlenecks that management cannot see centrally.", "The hard part is productising local wins: turn tacit prompts and judgement into defined inputs, permissions, state, exceptions, validation and ownership.", "This resembles the Access lifecycle, except the prototype is a piece of the organisation. Mature capabilities may become callable interfaces rather than another SaaS UI.", "AI adoption \u2192 distributed experimentation \u2192 local workflow \u2192 shared workflow \u2192 organisational capability \u2192 callable infrastructure \u2192 role consolidation."], "links": ["https://watch.wilsoniumite.com/", "https://github.com/wilsoniumite/labor", "https://codykenb.github.io/recession-model/"], "tags": ["ai", "apis", "automation", "future-of-work", "organisations"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-10-08T10:18:20.786354Z", "edited": "2026-10-08T19:55:06.698824Z"}}