The point you seem to be missing is that focusing only on optimization makes us all fragile to system shocks.

> Businesses don’t exercise (or perhaps even train) this process because it’s just not needed enough to warrant the cost.

Until a crisis hits. Covid and supply chain failures. Iran war and straight of Hormuz. Prolonged War in Europe with no production pipeline available. Banks collapsing after unsustainable overleveraging in supposedly "safe" mortgages.

For every optimization and cost-saving measure that is deployed, there should be a backup plan in place. MBA types and "technologists" keep missing this. What is the backup plan for the case where most of the economy activity is built on software produced by business who overleveraged on LLM for code generation?