alt Hacker NewsFirst I'd like to understand what are these "small" non-tech companies in tiny towns 45k to its employees? The last labor survey had average Indian salary pegged at 21k.
> it pays for itself in literally a day
Most comments in the thread say this but don't explain the how. How does it pay for itself "literally" in a day? Through productivity/time savings? How exactly?
I can only assume people are talking about productivity gains. Have their been reports of increased productivity or layoffs in tiny town, small non-tech companies in India that I am unaware of? What is the source here? Without a concrete source this is mostly anecdotal evidence and not backed by data.
Today there is novelty factor of AI. Questions or tasks which required people to really plan out now can be tested through AI quickly. To many people that seems like progress and that AI is paying itself. But most of it is busy work and isn't adding value to the companies. Given that everyone is on the AI hype train they might not be looking at the expenses closely. With time they will start poring it over and cancelling contracts en-masse.
> Don't explain the how
They processed 10 cases in a day rather than 7. In some cases, new work took its place and the company makes a little bit more money, but this is a lagging effect naturally.
> Have their been reports of increased productivity or layoffs in tiny town, small non-tech companies in India that I am unaware of
PWC et al don't go around doing reports on these tiny companies bro. The only information you get is if you know people in that place and they tell you yourself, which is how I got to know.
> Given that everyone is on the AI hype train they might not be looking at the expenses closely
Yeah maybe F500 ceos exposed to LLM coding agents are on the hype train to some extent, but these M.S office pirating small companies are not on any hype train lol.
> The last labor survey had average Indian salary pegged at 21k.
Averaging across the whole of India gives you a useless number. In the richer regions, 21k is less than what a full time food delivery/quick commerce driver makes.