A major cloud infrastructure executive pushes back hard on the trend of replacing experienced workers with AI, calling it "one of the dumbest ideas" and economically self-defeating. His take: indiscriminately swapping talent for automation triggers a cascade of problems. "At some point, the whole thing explodes on itself," he warned. It's a rare voice questioning the hype around AI as a pure cost-cutting tool, raising real questions about whether short-term savings create long-term structural failures in business operations.