And yet they still haven’t managed to get enough people to pay the subscription costs, except the guys trying to package it as a SaaS and hoping the customers don’t notice they’re just a fancy middleman.

They can scale up training all they want, there’s a natural price point most customers won’t go over. And if you’re thinking about businesses paying that extra cost because they can save money on actual workers… Sure, for a few months, and then they realize what happens when they leave their super intelligent AI agents alone for a few weeks and a website changes the default layout, breaking the entire workflow, or when an important client receives an absurd automated email, or when their AI note taker and financial planning agent is incapable of answering why $20000 disappeared.