People saying 'you can do this without AI anyway' are completely missing the point.

Of course the task itself is doable without AI — that's not the argument. The real advantage isn't what you can do, it's the scale and speed at which you can operate.

There are entire teams and individuals building competitive moats around volume and turnaround times that would be physically impossible without AI in the loop. They're not going to advertise it either — no restaurant tells you 'this dish is cheap and fast because of our kitchen tech.'

If you think AI is just a fancy autocomplete, you're operating at a fundamentally different level than the people already leveraging it for 10x throughput.