Fair question - one that I’ve considered in my use of agents.

In my case - about 15,000% ROI this year - I pay OpenAI their $200 a month, and from it I’ve had:

- Tangible revenue boost on one business by having it build tooling and manage pricing

- Entire backlog of scheduling hell sorted out - again by having it build tooling and then using it to automatically route jobs to contractors and schedule them, deal with exceptions, etc. My complaints pipeline has dried up, and now my entire process for a problem is to go “yes, approve” a few times.

- Saved a fortune on legal fees around a complex intercontinental move - don’t need no immigration advisor when you’ve got a bot to dredge up and fill in forms for you - all accepted, I might add.

- Flipped two properties successfully, again by building AI-assisted tooling to sift through tens of thousands of real estate listings and surface the handful that are mispriced.

While I’m at it, I also have it crank out a weekly episode of an adventure game for my daughter, which I tailor to her interests and whatever she’s learning about this week. The value there is intangible but immeasurable. Imagine! A voice acted, scored, engaging game for an audience of one - the economics would have been inconceivable even a year ago.

I can hands down say that none of this would have happened without profligate use of LLMs.