As someone who spends an hour or two a week using AI tools, it's a time sink. I spend (almost) all my LLM time keeping on top of changes in my company's preferred tooling, updating software, updating authentication mechanisms, etc.

If I spent twice the time with these tools, most of the additional time invested would be "profit". So maybe there's something to these arguments that "it will only get better".

OTOH, we also see this with business investments of all types. "We're spending all our revenue on growth, if we wanted profits, we could slow investment at any time, and be immediately profitable!"