I recently did a contract at medium sized business with a large retail and onlin...

jama211 · 2026-02-14T07:10:35.000000Z

Or they’d keep the same number of people and increase total value output. Businesses tend to like the idea of growth more than cost cutting after all.

oefrha · 2026-02-14T09:44:08.000000Z

People don’t suddenly eat more food due to AI. That are a lot of industries with bounded total demand.

jama211 · 2026-02-14T17:36:36.000000Z

That’s true, however I’m truely glad 70% of the population isn’t working in food production anymore, those were the bad old times.

Ensorceled · 2026-02-17T12:24:20.000000Z

> Businesses tend to like the idea of growth more than cost cutting after all.

I would offer as counter to this view: massive layoffs across the early adopters of AI, the tech giants.

catmanjan · 2026-02-14T08:48:41.000000Z

However good growth is finite unless you also believe in immigration and debt

jama211 · 2026-02-14T17:37:02.000000Z

Well all of that is false and tbh sounds a bit sus

catmanjan · 2026-02-15T23:14:48.000000Z

Infinite growth is a childish belief

jackfranklyn · 2026-02-14T11:35:56.000000Z

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Sammi · 2026-02-14T12:45:23.000000Z

I keep seeing that small teams or individuals are getting most of the productivity gains from new ai.

Small teams or individuals that learn to use ai well can outpace larger teams, even if the larger teams also use ai, because communication / coordination overhead grows faster than team size. Tasks that before needed large teams to get done, can now be done by smaller teams.

Large Knowledge work teams have lost their competitive advantage.

I see this as a business opportunity for small actors. Every large knowledge work team that doesn't quickly adapt and downsize itself, is now something you can disrupt as a small team or individual.