Breaking: McKinsey Said 57% of Jobs Could Be Automated. Amazon and Salesforce Just Made It Deployable.
The barrier keeping McKinsey’s 57% theoretical wasn’t primarily cost. It was the talent bottleneck: companies couldn’t hire AI specialists to implement automation even when they wanted to. Job postings requiring “5 years experience in 4-year-old fields” became the practical barrier that kept automation locked in the realm of theory.
On December 3, 2025, AWS eliminated that barrier.