this reasoning is flawed. wouldn't a for-profit company just balance the workforce for the productivity gained to increase overall profit? some person is 10x

this reasoning is flawed. wouldn't a for-profit company just balance the workforce for the productivity gained to increase overall profit? some person is 10x 'more productive' (whatever that means) , let's cut 9 jobs. Although to your grander point, employment during the LLM-embrace period seems fairly stable.[0] [0]: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/msft/employees/ https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/msft/employees/