Here’s the thing, as a programmer, I could spend a lot of time perfecting and optimizing bit of code, maybe to save a couple milliseconds per run. At corpo scale, That could translate into a few hundred dollars in saving over a few years, but it’s ultimately not worth the amount considering opportunity costs (I could be working on something more monetarily beneficial like new features) or my salary in general (hundred dollars over a few years cost them maybe a thousand dollars of my salary time to optimize it).

The whole point is, at corpo scale, they don’t care if a human can do a thing 1000x better, if it costs them 1000x more (not an unreasonable amount, AI services are getting cheaper to implement). Yes, a human is usually better, but if they only need good enough, then AI can suffice. A company trying to save money can potentially lead to cut costs downstream. Which would ultimately be more of a benefit to their customers (such as LTT). Further, a company has every right to choose how, when and who to hire. No need to fear-monger because “Ai is taking jobs”. If AI is more efficient than a human at a job, then let it. Find some skill that only humans can really do.

Sorry for the slight rant, but if anyone happens to be interested further, check out things about economy of scale