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 there’s 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 didn’t hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.
That’s like me saying humans have two legs and you being like leftist Karen “akshually amputees and birth defects can have 1 or no legs “. Congrats. Those are unique snowflake edge cases
In my experience, they're less unique than you seem to think. But nobody sees the full cost picture until it's too late because only the basic operational costs are simple to quantify.