Are there any companies outside of the "AI shovels" business that make more money because of AI? Every time I ask someone why they went so hard on adopting AI, I hear the same story about the fear of losing the market share or becoming less competitive. Honest question, who is benefitting from all of this? The revenues at majority of companies seem flat at best. There is a growing concern about professionals getting deskilled, the job satisfaction is not improving, wages are stagnant. Mind-boggling that we are actively engaged and often push for this experiment that hurts our own profession. Cheering for our own demise.

I use AI compatibility as a metric when evaluating new software to add to my stack. If an AI agent isn’t able to do most of what you can do in the app by opening it, I prefer to look for other options.

Does not apply to everything though. E.G: I don’t care about AI support for my non work chats/email, since I’d rather not give it access.