> they all use ai all day to do their entire jobs

I assure you they do not, many truly do not care and don't want to. That's just what the hype and the article and the stories tell you. The HN bubble tells you that's true, but 90% of my co-workers don't even want to touch Claude, despite being given a license.

And again, if e.g. ChatGPT is providing so much value, why aren't people buying?

> why aren't people buying?

They have "more than 50 million consumer subscribers" and "More than 9 million paying business users" [0]. That's for example more subscribers than for Adobe Creative Cloud.

[0] https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/