Smoke and mirrors, Sandra. From what I hear, LLMs can't be trusted unsupervised by the humans they were supposed to replace, so those delusions of redundancies are just that (the only thing that hallucinates more readily than an LLM is a company director). What all this *does* do is provide a semi-plausible excuse for managers to sack workers, which is this decade's fashionable way to pump up share valuations without actually doing anything.

Meanwhile, nobody is actually paying the proper price for building and running all those hot systems: it's all firms swapping share issues to fund each other, and running the service at a paper loss "just for now". Once reality catches up, and real money has to be paid to cover the actual costs, said managers and directors will suddenly discover it's cheaper to hire people again. Hopefully, there'll still be enough of us wrinklies around to re-educate the next generation.

If there were a Killer App that required AI, and which would be worth killing the planet to run it, we would all have heard of it. Beware of investing in "a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is".