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Lol people like you operate in a local maximum.

Ultimately the shareholders want to see the money. They dont give a crap about what you think or what the poster above thinks - you're both accountable to the shareholders who do not employ you for fun. They employ you for the sole purpose of making them wealthier. All this incremental spend on tokens shows up in the financials positively or it doesn't.

Im convinced the most scarce skill on the planet is the ability to a) envision something that needs to exist in the world b) explain how the thing creates value from a financial perspective.

Most people tend to think they know what they are talking about (e.g. surface level understanding of how to think economically) and end up making basket-case decisions - only realising it months later. By that point they will fail to admit defeat and keep going on.

"As for startups, seems like AI tools have drastically reduced their time to market and accelerated their growth curves."

You mean like openclaw? lol

Absolute delusion.

The best people can not only envision products but also possess great judgement without needing data. For AI to even come close it would need an insane amount of data that is nuanced and subtle - by the the time the AI has obtained all the necessary data and made sense of it the human is long gone working on something else.

Let’s take an extreme example.

Meta seemingly has a constant stream of product managers. If llm’s really augment the productivity of engineers, why isn’t meta launching lots more stuff? I mean there’s no harm in at least launching one new thing.

What are all those people doing with the so called productivity enhancements?

What I’m calling into question is how much does generating more code matter if the bottle neck is creativity/imagination for projects?

The only thing I’ve seen is a really crummy meta AI thing implemented within WhatsApp.

Incremental cash flows is what we should be observing - have to net out the costs of llm associated with the activity.

Thats just one set of costs but a good starting point.