You’ve made some good points here and I generally agree on who the buyers of AI will be. My one quibble is with the agency - AI companies aren’t “deciding” to

You’ve made some good points here and I generally agree on who the buyers of AI will be. My one quibble is with the agency - AI companies aren’t “deciding” to sell to execs/managers unilaterally. In fact most AI startups I know start out with ambitions to solve an IC challenge. But no one is spending on AI tools for their ICs. There’s almost no budget for AI tools anywhere. Execs and managers can get discretionary budget (esp. if it’s limited to them). So yes, that’s where software purchasing happens (and almost always has). But it’s not some master plan on the part of AI founders.