It’s just PR for his company, Athena or whatever the fuck is called. The real and simple answer is: employers want to pay workers the minimum necessary, ideally zero, while extracting as much work they can from them. The natural consequence is that the smartest workers will job-hopping until they can, to work less for more money. Long story short: it’s how capitalism work.

Which mini pc? I have an Intel NUC Intel i5 and looking for something smaller but can run a dev desktop (xfce, vscode, node, docker).

BTW you might want to not tell anyone: there are a few stories on Reddit of people that were fired after they (or someone else) automated some time-consuming tasks like that.