This seems to be mostly non-tech jobs being automated. The expected result of hiring these people is whatever menial work they were doing (not trying to be insulting, menial work is where automation thrives). Tech jobs, are already about automation (to a degree) and that is the expected result of hiring a dev.
Therein lies the fundamental difference. If a dev automates, they are doing what they are being paid to do, if a non-dev automates, they are no longer doing what they are being paid to do (in the eyes of the company of course, we can have a whole different argument about whether they are being paid for effort-input or value-output).
Therein lies the fundamental difference. If a dev automates, they are doing what they are being paid to do, if a non-dev automates, they are no longer doing what they are being paid to do (in the eyes of the company of course, we can have a whole different argument about whether they are being paid for effort-input or value-output).