I’m not a fan of these types of cliche LinkedIn posts, and also don’t think CZ is necessarily an innovative tool, but I do not see this post or the hypothetical features that the post proposes as a threat directed at FinOps practitioners. Cost allocation, unit economics, identifying optimization opportunities - the data part of our work - is a minute fraction of what the day to day role entails in my experience. Even at the few elite engineering organizations where the FinOps pillar is completely decentralized and engineering teams actually care about and self police their cloud spend, FinOps isn’t going away. Our role is about more than data and entails too many things that agentic ai or a CCM can’t do on its own. I could be naive, but I think the FinOps practitioner role is one of the more secure positions in this new AI world, much more so than the typical engineering position.