Series of such "improvements" could be fame and fortune in your team/group/vertical. In such places, the guy who toots the loudest wins the most.

So THAT's why large organizations want "AI".

In such a place I should be a very loud advocate of LLMs, use them to generate 100% of my output for new tasks...

... and then "improve performance" by simply fixing all the obvious inefficiencies and brag about the 400% speedups.

Hmm. Next step: instruct the "AI" to use bubblesort.