Effective organizations are busy replacing the low-quality contractors with AI. Seize the opportunity to demonstrate how you can get more done with a $1,000/month token budget than with $10,000/month in contractor salary.
You: Have you considered using more AI? Dance monkey, dance! Show them how good at AI you are!
Genuinely, learn to read the room - or at the very least read the comments you plan to respond to before you respond to them.
Did you see the part where they complained about the experience with low quality contractors becoming extra bad?
A suggestion to get rid of those contractors entirely so now they only have the AI problem might actually be an improvement.
If AI is a 10xer the question is what is it 10xing.