Yes the causality is reversed in a lot of peoples minds but this is more in-line with some other "innovations" were enforced. Big Boss reads Gartner. Gartners

Yes the causality is reversed in a lot of peoples minds but this is more in-line with some other "innovations" were enforced. Big Boss reads Gartner. Gartners says do X. Big Boss mandates X, and gets the cost savings they want by firing or hiring freeze. The quality/quantity of the output was hard to measure compared to the concrete reduction on the spend side. 20 years ago it was offshoring. I recall a job where managers were all essentially given the offer at budget season - you can have 5 hires in Bangalore or 0 hires in US. Not a pot of money and managers deciding X vs Y, it was simply an ultimatum X or 0. Certainly it worked, however it was first forced in many areas where it didn't work, top-down. AI efficiencies will happen similarly.