The speaker's autonomy-slider concept describes automation progressively taking over more of the work that can be automated at a given time, while humans do less of that work and move to a higher level of abstraction.

“like compilers will take my high-level language in C and write the assembly code so we're abstracting ourselves very very slowly and there's this what I call autonomy slider of like more and more stuff is automated of the stuff that can be automated at any point in time and we're doing a bit less and less and raising ourselves in the layer abstraction over the automation”