this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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Who, other than companies selling AI to other companies?
I'm sure that's what they're talking about.
I haven't seen any company selling end users AI at any price that looks like it could actually turn a profit.
It feels so very bubble.
You can’t usually replace people with AI per se, but there is a lot of routine work you can do more efficiently with the help of AI. And that in the end reduces needed staff.
A surprising percentage of that routine work that can be machine assisted is already automated. Even an agentic AI LLM doesn't do anything a clever bash script couldn't. (And bash does it without hallucinations.)
So the opportunity is that a we can automate things that were not worth automating, before.
But the challenge is that anything with crazy good returns on efficiency is likely to already have been automated better.
So we have a really expensive tool hunting for huge efficiency gains among the scraps leftover from earlier better automation solutions.