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Because if one human managing 5 AI agents gets 120% work output, then you either can scale up and produce more widgets or scale down and save costs on workforce.
Want to know another easy way to save costs on the workforce? We've all known this option since 2020. You close your brick and mortar office and let people work from home.
Except for the slight problem that those 5 AI agents cost the same as 3 people so you could have skipped the agents, just hired 3 people and gotten 400% output instead of 120%. Yeah it takes longer to scale up and down, but exactly how volatile is your industry that demand is fluctuating that much month to month?
The world is going through population decline. We aren’t going to have the people to do the work.