Yes, unfortunately. Each headcount, properly trained and reskilled, is now worth a whole team by themselves! I blame capitalism and the inability to look past the next quarterly earnings statement for what's happening instead.

I think in the (very) long run it will end up being for the best. This will force us lowly serfs to grow beyond our wage-labor mindset and leverage this force multiplier for ourselves.

AI lets those with capital get rid of labor, but by the same token(s ;-)) labor can now achieve outsize results without capital!

It is going to be very uncomfortable, but evolution always is.