I ate this onion so hard

I feel like I am missing something here. I understand this is satire, but I do not understand the narrative.

• Company embraces AI tools
• Company enacts policy stating that when employees request any additional resources, they must justify why they cannot simply use AI to perform that task instead
• Employee creates tool that generates a nonsense justification
• Using this tool to request resources, employees keep their jobs because leadership thinks AI cannot do those jobs
• Company awards employee for creating that tool

Why would a company that is going all-in on AI tools embrace a tool that negates that? Is that the irony of the joke?