What AI seems to be replacing is mostly bullshit jobs in this case, that should have been handled by someone else.
Our species has proven itself to be exceptionally bad at finding the middle ground between giving individuals the freedom to self-direct and allocating resources efficiently at scale.
These resource allocation problems exist at the national level, but also within even some of the smallest organizations and certainly everywhere between.
Outside of FAANG, how many development teams really have a dedicated DevOps teammate? A DBA? A tester? A sysadmin? Hell, a sysop?!
SWEs outside of FAANG are so accustomed to wearing dozens of hats that many would still consider the wisdom in "The Mythical Man-Month" a pipedream.