alt Hacker NewsLLM proponents always use some language like "these old, stuck up dinosaurs with their manual labor vs us cool smart kids with automated labor", but they forget one thing - with automated labor the performance and cost difference was easily measurable in favor of the automation. With LLMs it's neither measurable nor visible (no better software, no faster delivery overall in the industry), and the costs are pretty bad. Besides personal anecdotes of someone toiling away at yet another AI harness project on GitHub.
Right now, to get some good results from AI and save time, you will have to spend a lot of tokens and money. Maybe in the future, the things will get better, I don't know.
Saving money is the wrong reason to use AI now. AI is expensive if you want good results.
But what AI is good for, is it allows you to build fast.
Also, I don't see everything being automated. To get good results you have to drive the AI.
The factories still have workers supervising the process and doing some high value manual processes even if most of the production is done by machines.