Their whole argument is that AI's added efficiency means they don't need to set aside valuable human time anymore. Why can't they just point Claude at Claude Code and ask it to reduce memory usage by 90%?

You can do that. But I'm telling you, in tech (and enterprise shops I've worked at too) they don't care.

I'm using the internal Google tools and it's helping me write code much faster too, but it still takes time. I could make the CLI tool I work on faster, but no one cares except the end users, and their minor concerns have no impact on our internal politics.

At the end of the day you have to do what you're paid to do, unfortunately.