Sir, you are talking to someone who perpetually sounds like a cynic despite being optimistic otherwise I wouldn't be here. I wholly agree with you on this front. I could rant on my personal economics of AI tools, but I don't yet find them viable. If AI could remain consisten in my experience, I'd find myself using it more. My standards are HIGH. That's hard for an AI to hit. Prompts are source code at this point, except worse because source code usually gives you the same output for the same input... I could spend 8 hours making prompts and helper files and still get disappointed. It's hard to even call instruction files and promting an investment. And im glad the vibers can keep jumping between different IDEs but enterprises can't really do that.

And yeah you're talking AI, but the whole $20 retail cost to $150 investment cost is all of big tech, or was anyway. AWS was floating on government contracts then ratcheted up the prices to the point where I see like a new blog weekly about purchasing a small power plant and a datacenter because it's cheaper over a 60 month lease term than it is to use AWS. That's no accident IMO.

Im not even in corporate world that's just outside looking in.