CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually.
One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.
Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.
You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.
The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage.
And then thereβs the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.
To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.
You didnβt hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.
"A.I" is not controlling anything. Its simply a software tool that takes input and coughs up output. Its up to us to interpret the output / hook it to automation.
If you attach an AI to perform some action, its like attaching a gun to a trip wire.
Its up to you to hook AI to do things automatically, which you should only do when the end-to-end setup is tested thoroughly covering every scenario.
The real power of AI comes when you use it manually to do specific tasks, just like you use a gun manually to shoot at specific targets.
This is why the use of the term "AI" is so misleading. There is nothing "intelligent" about it. Its really a Large Language Model - LLM.