AI will make workers 3x more productive, effectively reducing headcount by two-thirds unless companies triple in size.

AI will make workers 3x more productive, effectively reducing headcount by two-thirds unless companies triple in size. | AI is easily going to make me three times more productive. Okay, well that's the same thing, right? In terms of the headcount you need to get a job done, that's effectively the same thing. ... So the hope is that these companies will grow into it and can keep current headcount and expand 3x. But if you don't expand 3x, you're still looking at, you know, a two-thirds reduction in headcount to get the same job done. So it effectively is a huge amount of displacement because, you know, big big banks, insurance companies are not going to triple their size in the time frame where it has.

AI is easily going to make me three times more productive. Okay, well that's the same thing, right? In terms of the headcount you need to get a job done, that's effectively the same thing. ... So the hope is that these companies will grow into it and can keep current headcount and expand 3x. But if you don't expand 3x, you're still looking at, you know, a two-thirds reduction in headcount to get the same job done. So it effectively is a huge amount of displacement because, you know, big big banks, insurance companies are not going to triple their size in the time frame where it has.

3x productivity / 2/3 headcount = already happening in specific functions (legal research, software engineering). Enterprise-wide still 10-20% productivity gain average.

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