> That is exactly what working with small and mid-size businesses looks like: find the process where AI pays off, build the agent or the integration, and get it to the people who will use it.

This is exactly right.

I’m making good side money from building and integrating “AI” with small business tools.

Custom CRMs and tracking solutions so they don’t have to buy salesforce etc…

Notably this doesn’t reliably work for juniors, which supports the article.

You need to already have experience making enterprise scale software, otherwise you’re going to miss some massive authentication or data exposure problem.

I anticipate the return of the software consulting company like initech, but instead of having Tom and Milton and Samir and Peter etc…, you only have Lumburgh and Michael Bolton.