We professional C-suites, lost the battle against vibe-leadership?

I'm a Chief Operating Officer with 18 years of P&L ownership across four verticals. Eight months ago I was separated when shareholders made the decision that two agent driven autonomous systems could absorb our entire executive layer. Since then I've submitted over a hundred applications. I'm currently working at McDonald's as a Chief Food Readiness Officer (burger flipper) to maintain baseline personal operational overhead while I do it.

Every interview I land follows the same script. They ask how I approach ambiguity and organizational transformation. I walk them through my framework. You can see it on their faces, they're not looking for that skill set anymore. I don't advance. One agentic based talent acquisition lead told me directly: "The executive function is a legacy role. Your MBA is a liability at this point."

I know over 200 senior executives in the same position; Chief Revenue Officers, Chief People Officers, people with decade-long track records and full P&L accountability, all grinding through the same pipeline stall. Some are doing what I'm doing. Others have stopped looking.

Two physically-deployed agent nodes with verticalized agent stacks, absorbed the scope of twelve executive functions. Companies have fully committed to that architecture.

What bothers me most is that nobody in a technical position is absorbing the consequences of this decision. The engineers implementing those new features from the bottom-up aren't the ones flipping burgers. We're not ready for what's coming and what's visible right now is just the beginning.