Comment by mvdtnz

> If GAI (or agents, or whatever comes next …) is so effective it should be quite simple to prove that by creating an AI only company and in short order producing huge amounts of serviceable code to do useful things.

I don't think this follows. Anyone can see that 10-ton excavator is hundreds or even thousands of times more efficient than a man with a shovel. That doesn't mean you can start a company up staffed only with excavators. Firstly you obviously need people operating the excavator. Secondly the excavator is incredibly efficient at moving lots of dirt around, but no crew could perform any non-trivial job without all the tasks that the excavator is not good out - planning, loading/unloading, prepping the site, fine work (shovelling dirt around pipes and wires), etc.

AI is a tool. It will mean companies can run much leaner. This doesn't imply they can do everything a company needs to do.