First I'd like to understand what are these "small" non-tech companies in tiny towns 45k to its employees? The last labor survey had average Indian salary pegged at 21k.

> it pays for itself in literally a day

Most comments in the thread say this but don't explain the how. How does it pay for itself "literally" in a day? Through productivity/time savings? How exactly?

I can only assume people are talking about productivity gains. Have their been reports of increased productivity or layoffs in tiny town, small non-tech companies in India that I am unaware of? What is the source here? Without a concrete source this is mostly anecdotal evidence and not backed by data.

Today there is novelty factor of AI. Questions or tasks which required people to really plan out now can be tested through AI quickly. To many people that seems like progress and that AI is paying itself. But most of it is busy work and isn't adding value to the companies. Given that everyone is on the AI hype train they might not be looking at the expenses closely. With time they will start poring it over and cancelling contracts en-masse.