Why is everyone using AI is so hellbent on replacing humans?

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I see it everywhere. You might have seen such videos or content too:
"I replaced my copywriters with AI"
"I replaced my entire content team with AI agents"
"I replaced my support team with chatbots"

These are just a few examples.

My opinion is that people "replacing" their human workers with AI don't know the process behind achieving that result.

Someone who replaced their graphic designer might think graphic design is just visual but he might never have worked as a graphic designer and don't know anything like color theory, layout, typography, etc. They might not even know what purpose their AI generated graphic serves. They might not know the research that goes behind when creating graphic, content, or even a software (security, API rate limiting, authentication, etc.).

Has anyone here successfully replaced a human worker (skilled) with AI without having to be a babysitter to the AI?
 
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yeah i agree
if you don’t already understand the workflow, you end up babysitting anyway, just in a different form.
 
Because they want to save money and they do not care if it means killing the quality of the provided services

This is the current situation for millions of services around the world: lower quality services, more profit margins for them, a total joke
 
Nameless Knight said:
I see it everywhere. You might have seen such videos or content too:
"I replaced my copywriters with AI"
"I replaced my entire content team with AI agents"
"I replaced my support team with chatbots"

These are just a few examples.

My opinion is that people "replacing" their human workers with AI don't know the process behind achieving that result.

Someone who replaced their graphic designer might think graphic design is just visual but he might never have worked as a graphic designer and don't know anything like color theory, layout, typography, etc. They might not even know what purpose their AI generated graphic serves. They might not know the research that goes behind when creating graphic, content, or even a software (security, API rate limiting, authentication, etc.).

Has anyone here successfully replaced a human worker (skilled) with AI without having to be a babysitter to the AI?
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it's just people using ai to hyper and promote shit
yes jobs are being replaced slowly by AI
but at the same time, ai is fucking up alot of things which is giving humans more jobs too
majority of the videos by your top trash youtubers on AI
are fake, trash or misrepresented
just to get you into the ecosystem
 
Venusaur said:
Because they want to save money and they do not care if it means killing the quality of the provided services

This is the current situation for millions of services around the world: lower quality services, more profit margins for them, a total joke
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Yes, I see this happening everywhere. Windows 11 updates breaking systems, X (frequent outages), Meta (Frequent errors), AWS (2 major outages and a billing bug in same year), even Cloudflare now (which I trusted a lot in past), etc.

It seems like the companies who are using AI in their work are producing lower quality products than before. All these above companies are leaders in their respective fields and today it feels like their products are vibe-coded nightmare.

Enshittification is sparing no one it seems
 
I think it is impossible to get a production ready solution, whether that be graphic design or software, with current AI models on their own. You still need a professional to prompt, structure, lead and finalize the output from the AI.

Random person using AI < Professional without AI < Professional with AI

Those who seriously replaced their skilled workers with AI are not very smart and/or extremely greedy and it will certainly come back to harm their business in the end
 
Nameless Knight said:
My opinion is that people "replacing" their human workers with AI don't know the process behind achieving that result.
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Just like when everyone arbitrarily added ".com" to their company name.

The internet we see today is what survived that crash, not what the bubble promised. IMO, we're in the same sort of bubble now. AI won't disappear when it pops, but the crash will shift it away from 'AI toilet paper rolls' and toward something closer to Google 2.0.
 
@rob5 is right about that formula. anyone who says they replaced their whole team with AI and saw zero drop in conversions is either lying to sell a course or running some churn and burn site that will get wiped by the next google update anyway. we use AI to scale up the first drafts but you still need a solid editor to make it actually sell. without that human touch it just sounds like generic corporate slop that nobody wants to read... let alone buy from. it is basically just a leverage tool, not a magic employee.
 
At this point, I doubt AI can replace entire processes. It excels at repetitive tasks and more, but it still can't replace judgment or expertise. So a lot of those "we replaced our team with AI" claims feel exaggerated.
 
  1. Computers and Technology the conglomerate of things. Also a dictatorship in 2026 when computers/parts cost a kidney and they are reserving all the best chips for Ai. Some company are even opting out to sell to consumers entirely
  2. Everything else under this umbrella because Ai means cost cutting (Which some industries are realizing now that Ai costs a lot of money to solve whether they pay for it or need to design infrestruce in house regardless its still expensive at scale)
  3. me and you the crabs at the bottom of the barrel

Money syndicate Ai has become so its top down everyone is obsessed with either making money or saving money. Its also the paradigm of you can either sell pickaxes to miners or you can be the miners buying the pickaxes to mine gold to sell, who do you think is making the most money here? its not the miners.
The way its going, if you don't adopt Ai you will be on the side of the divide that is poor and broke.
 
Nameless Knight said:
I see it everywhere. You might have seen such videos or content too:
"I replaced my copywriters with AI"
"I replaced my entire content team with AI agents"
"I replaced my support team with chatbots"

These are just a few examples.

My opinion is that people "replacing" their human workers with AI don't know the process behind achieving that result.

Someone who replaced their graphic designer might think graphic design is just visual but he might never have worked as a graphic designer and don't know anything like color theory, layout, typography, etc. They might not even know what purpose their AI generated graphic serves. They might not know the research that goes behind when creating graphic, content, or even a software (security, API rate limiting, authentication, etc.).

Has anyone here successfully replaced a human worker (skilled) with AI without having to be a babysitter to the AI?
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Meta laid a lot of its employees due to AI in May 2026, therefore yes someone has done that.
 
Nikolaos said:
Meta laid a lot of its employees due to AI in May 2026, therefore yes someone has done that.
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From what I have heard, they didn't lay off the employees because they replaced them with AI. They got rid of them so they can spend more capital on developing their AI models.

Companies who have made bold claims and did mass layoffs have suffered from a lot of issues but since they have a monopoly of a sort, their user base hasn't stopped using their products.
 
rob5 said:
I think it is impossible to get a production ready solution, whether that be graphic design or software, with current AI models on their own. You still need a professional to prompt, structure, lead and finalize the output from the AI.

Random person using AI < Professional without AI < Professional with AI

Those who seriously replaced their skilled workers with AI are not very smart and/or extremely greedy and it will certainly come back to harm their business in the end
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But here's what I'm wandering — do you think that ranking is accurate tho? Like is a professional WITH AI really always better, or are there cases where a random person using AI acutally produces better results just because they're more creative or less "stuck in their ways"?

Also that last part about it coming back to "harm their business" — has anyone actually seen this happen in real life or is it just theroy at this point?
 
cosmoaccs said:
But here's what I'm wandering — do you think that ranking is accurate tho? Like is a professional WITH AI really always better, or are there cases where a random person using AI acutally produces better results just because they're more creative or less "stuck in their ways"?

Also that last part about it coming back to "harm their business" — has anyone actually seen this happen in real life or is it just theroy at this point?
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We have biggest software companies as an example of what happens when you replace humans with AI. Microsoft Windows having issues with each update, AWS going down frequently, some startup's whole database getting wiped, Google search results becoming shit, Meta downtime, etc.

And, yes, a professional/expert with AI will always be better than a normal person with AI because the normal person can't decide whether AI output is correct or not as he lacks the domain expertise.
 
Nameless Knight said:
We have biggest software companies as an example of what happens when you replace humans with AI. Microsoft Windows having issues with each update, AWS going down frequently, some startup's whole database getting wiped, Google search results becoming shit, Meta downtime, etc.
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Like… if Microsoft, Google and AWS are strugling with this, what chance does a random small business have by replacing their skilled workers with AI?

But the second point is what really got me thinking — the idea that a normal person can't even judge if AI output is correct because they lack domain expertise. So esentially they wouldn't even know when somthing is wrong untill it's to late?

Has anyone here actualy experienced a situation where AI produced something that looked completly fine on the surface but turned out to be badly wrong — and you only found out because someone with real expertise pointed it out?
 
It still lacks when using it for anything else but generic content creation or simple front-end designs. When giving it complicated tasks you’ll still be going through outputs line for line to optimize.
 
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