I helped implement AI tools at my corporate job. It made me invaluable. It also got good people laid off. I have mixed feelings.

I work in IT admin for a major company. Started teaching myself AI automation tools in my own time. Applied them to my workload, my output doubled, got noticed and promoted. Became the go to person for AI integration across departments.

But here’s the part that sits heavy with me. Once leadership saw what AI could do, they started looking at headcount differently. People who had been there 10, 15 years. Gone. Not because they did anything wrong. Just because a system could now do their job cheaper.
I benefited from knowing AI early. Others paid the price for not knowing it yet. Is that their fault? The company’s fault? Just the way progress works?
Genuinely asking because I don’t have a clean answer.