> I think it means that your job should then become automating aspects of the business, then maintaining these automations. Your labour becomes automating.

More realistically: as a laborer, you shouldn't put in extra effort to automate your job away, because the benefits will likely be kept from you, for the most part. They might throw you a bone as a reward, but a bones are leftovers. They'll keep the meat for themselves. This kind of automation is properly understood as a kind of charity for the people who need it least.

The appeal of automating away your job is the freedom it seems to bring to the automator, but that's an illusion. You'll remain a laborer until you're put in a position to go live under a bridge, which is a freedom you've always had.

If you want to openly automate away your job, you want to be a software engineer. At a minimum, negotiate a software engineer's salary from you employer before you start that work. However, if you can manage it, it's better for you to start a company to license the automation back in perpetuity.