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> In almost every company the usage of AI is becoming more and more valuable.

It's certainly becoming more common, and there are lots of people who want it to be valuable, and indeed believe it's valuable.

Personally, I find it about as valuable as a really, really good intellisense. Which is certainly valuable, but I feel like that's way off from the type/quality/quantity of value you're suggesting.

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I also find the intellisense aspect of it good though the price is still too high when my local IDE can do 1/10th of that for a long time.

Additionally, LLMs are sort of using old day google mastery to find the right result quickly to save a huge waste of wading through junk and SEO spam, which translates to productivity but then we are again balanced out because this gained productivity was lost once SEO spam took off a decade back. I am indifferent about this gain again, as anything with mass adaptation tends to devolve in garbage behavior eventually, slowly the gains will again be eaten up.

This is the comment I wanted to write before scrolling down. Information retrieval in general is really improving computer-related tasks, but I think present or visible is a much better term to describe it than valuable.

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