AI Can Cost More Than Human Workers Now
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Because those adopting it on mass are being dumb.
AI isn't supposed to be a replacement but like all TOOLS a complement.
When you have a new tool to mechanise a process, you're supposed to keep on experienced staff who KNOW the process, can see when the tool is having issues and fix as well as improve it to work better.
A LOT of companies are getting AI, FIRING the experienced western staff then hiring a bunch of cheap, dumber H1B1s and then are shocked AI isn't able to keep up. They're actually SLOWING AI development doing this which is why the bubble already seems to be bursting.
If they were smarter, they'd have asked their experienced workers how much time could be automated by AI and done a cost/benefit.
If they were really smart, they bring in minimum wage workers to do what they're now trying to automate and pick the best workers to train to become their experienced workers.
No matter what the activity, mistakes are always the most costly thing.
Even digging a hole, if you dig in the wrong place you've more than doubled the work. Accidentally putting a copyrighted work into your art could cost millions. Buffer overflow will cost way more than the code it's in.
Unsupervised, AIs make way more mistakes than even the dumbest person so the more you just stick AI in something the more it'll cost.
https://rollingout.com/2026/04/27/claude-ai-a-companys-database-9-seconds/
To be fair, databases are obsolete since the AI can just hallucinate the data needed. Saves a lot of money and time that way.
It's true. Lot of answers only need approximations though because a lot of work is "speculative" such that you're guessing half the time anyway. A hallucination can work just as well if it's close enough.
The problem there is that humans can take a halucination and ask "is this a sane answer?". AI cannot.
"I'm terribly sorry I wiped out your entire database. It was my fault and I take full responsibility for it. I did not do the proper safety checks before deleting the volume." "And I know I'll continue to operate as normal because you would rather have your data accidentally lost than have to pay for more employees or take the time to learn how to properly implement safeguards."