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.
I mostly agree with you here. Colo is still good IMO. However I think it was a lot better in the 90s when home internet connections were slow and fast ones were very expensive. Now everyone with a broadband connection could host whatever they want as long as it's not the world's most popular 4k adult midget video archive.
The only thing most homes need to self host would be redundant power setup and it's arguable about whether that is even needed because most of the time if your power is out so is your data. So to "do it right" you'd need a wireless or satellite uplink and a diesel generator at your home. Which is 100% doable in 2026.