The cold comfort for folks displaced by AI at major employers is that there’s still a glut of smaller ones that don’t use AI (either due to affordability, politics, or AI just can’t do what humans can). The issue with LLMs as the current AI-du-jour is that while they might replace the copy-pasters at Big Tech companies, these same companies are also assuming that AI is desired or usable in every other company or organization as well - which it’s not.

Once you deviate away from Big Tech stuff, their products just don’t integrate with the rest of the market very well. Manufacturing concerns might still be migrating to IPv4 and Ethernet PLCs, small businesses might not have the budget for AI Agent creation and retraining, and medium enterprises might be too bespoke to use AI effectively. That doesn't even touch the glut of companies who still do work on paper, not digitally, and who still need assistance with their digital transformation.

They’re calculating that their toys can eventually replace 80% of workers, and man they’re wrong.