Who is the intended audience for this proclamation? Other C-Suites jockeying to be the most-AI? A warning to engineers that you have no employment leverage? Investors looking to invest in an AI portfolio mix? What if Juniper says that they will create 80% of their software by AI?[0]

As a consumer, I am already pretty disdainful of Cisco's move-fast-and-break-things approach which has good odds of hard-coding yet another password. Network gear should be reliable backbone infrastructure. Little innovation, but incremental progress.

[0] I am too tired to put together the "seven minute abs" joke on the tip of my tongue.

So, economy will continue to function as long as there's a consumer. If it's not clear yet, these companies and their sociopathic agenda don't see the need for consumers they can't control and constrict. At the end of the day, if there's 1 whale on the hook, they can ditch 99 fish.

Economics doesn't have any idea of morality, carrying capacity, etc.