If you're implying I didn't have anything but edlin levels of manipulation prior to AI you've mistaken what was said. The matter here is "a third way AI is used

If you're implying I didn't have anything but edlin levels of manipulation prior to AI you've mistaken what was said. The matter here is "a third way AI is used" not "I had no forms of automation at all until this way to use AI came around". Surely, at some point, you've replaced, upgraded, or improved one of your automation methods in the last several decades as well? On that note, I certainly wouldn't choose to invest all this money just to get better autocomplete... but whether or not someone else did I'm going to use it where it makes sense for me to.