We are processing same data for the last 2 years.
Inference prices droped like 90 percent in that time (a combination of cheaper models, implicit caching, service levels, different providers and other optimizations).
Quality went up. Quantity of results went up. Speed went up.
Service level that we provide to our clients went up massively and justfied better deals. Headcount went down.
What's not to like?
The headcount that went down probably isn’t too thrilled about it.
The decline of independent thoughts for one. As people become reliant on LLMs to do their thinking for them and solve all problems that they stumble upon, they become a shell of their previous self.
Sadly, this is already happening.