For decades, the Oracle ERP ecosystem has been a protected economy built on two distinct pillars: the Functional Consultant (the architect of business process) and the Technical Consultant (the master of the code). For the technical cohort, the complexity of Oracle’s architecture was their greatest job security.
That security has evaporated.
While AI serves as a powerful co-pilot for functional leads, it is acting as the Great Destroyer for the technical consultant. The specialized “moat” of PL/SQL mastery, API development, and data migration logic is being drained in real-time. The Oracle Technical Consultant, as we know them, is becoming a relic of the past.
The Democratization of the Red Stack
Technical consultants once held the “keys to the kingdom” because Oracle’s technical layers were notoriously opaque. Whether it was writing complex SQL for OTBI reports or building custom extensions in OCI, you needed a specialist.
AI has destroyed this barrier. Because Oracle’s technical frameworks follow rigid, documented, and standardized patterns, they are the perfect meal for Large Language Models. AI doesn’t just “help” write an Oracle integration; it renders the specialized knowledge of how to write it obsolete.
The Collapse of the “Translation Tax”
Historically, an Oracle implementation required a human “translator.” The Functional Consultant would write a BR.100 (Business Requirement), and the Technical Consultant would translate that into an MD.050 (Design Document) and eventually code.
The Destroyer Effect: AI now performs this translation instantly. A functional consultant can now feed business requirements directly into an AI to generate the necessary PL/SQL, JSON payloads, or data mapping logic.
The Result: The “middleman” technical layer is being bypassed. When the machine understands the “how” perfectly, the person whose only value is “knowing how” loses their seat at the table.
Deterministic Death: Why Technical is Targets
In the world of Oracle ERP, technical tasks are deterministic—there is a finite, “correct” way to configure a web service or trigger a concurrent program.
AI thrives in the deterministic.
AI struggles in the probabilistic—the messy, political, and strategic world of the Functional Consultant.
While the Functional Consultant is busy navigating a client’s “scar tissue”—deciding how a specific Chart of Accounts structure will survive a future divestiture—the Technical Consultant is performing tasks that AI has already mastered. One is managing human complexity; the other is managing a syntax that is now a commodity.
The New Oracle Reality: Pivot or Perish
The title of “Oracle Technical Consultant” is transitioning from a high-status profession to a redundant function. As AI continues to ingest every Oracle white paper, patch note, and community forum post, the gap between “knowing nothing” and “building everything” has shrunk to a single prompt.
The Great Destroyer is not coming for the implementation; it is coming for the person who only speaks the language of the machine. In the next era of Oracle ERP, if you aren’t defining the why, you are being replaced by the AI.
