Relatively speaking, a company could obtain AGI first merely by just by keeping their critical thinkers while the rest of the industry offloads their thinking to LLMs. It wouldn’t be AGI, just GI, like we’ve always had before before GPT arrived

There are clearly defined tasks these things already do that are tedious and error-prone for a human. Using them correctly amplifies the abilities of humans. The problem is with the C-suite mentality towards cutting costs by replacing humans. It isn't going to work, but the only way they learn lessons like that is, as always, the hard way.