The AI boom is still growing like crazy. Many organizations are trying to learn how they can use AI to improve operations and become more efficient, at a reasonable cost. Plenty of companies are spending crazy amounts of AI tokens, sometimes blowing their yearly budgets in months and not necessarily receiving substantial value back. Some companies are trying to train AIs to understand their operations and perhaps reduce their other costs, primarily labor. Still others are tip-toeing in the waters of AI LLM use and conducting smaller experiments, with limited access to AI technology.

Meta has been a company on the forefront of trying to train AI based on the work employees already perform. There has been plenty of concern that their efforts are designed to lower headcount and replace humans with AI agents. That might or might not work, though I don't expect a lot of organizations to do this. It's likely harder than any of the hype suggests, and most organizations have much more complex types of operations than Meta.

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