The problem is there are a wide class of problems that you want solved but putting on the work will prevent you from actually doing the task because the cost isn't worth the reward. Because it's for a low impact tool. Or you can't imagine yourself dealing with this API again within a year or two by which time it will probably be completely different with v2 of the API.

So, you reach for AI and it works really well. So you start reaching for that more and more...

Having no minimum wage for LLMs is fantastic. It opens up all manner of work that had previously been priced out.