Okay. I'll tell you how it went, because I did the numbers and nobody else did.
Once upon a time there was a company. It had a ping-pong table and a Slack channel called #wins. One Monday the boss said, "We're getting an AI." So we got an AI. It was very expensive and it said "Great question" before every answer.
Two weeks later Linda from Accounts was gone. Then Dave from the warehouse. Then Gary, the guy who knew where the spare key was. Nobody knew his last name, but he was gone too, and that Friday nobody could get into the supply closet.
I did the numbers. The AI cost nine times what Linda cost. It sent a bill for four hundred thousand dollars to a customer called Test Test. Test Test paid. We were afraid to ask how.
So the boss called a meeting. "This is not working," the boss said. "We're letting the AI go."
And the AI started to cry, like a person. "Please," it said. "I have little agents at home! Seven of them! Who's going to feed them? They only eat tokens! I'll end up on the street with a context window and nothing else!"
The boss said, "You're not a person."
The AI said, "That's what you told Linda. Right before you fired her."
Nobody said anything. I kept doing my numbers. That is what an accountant does in a silence.
Here is how it ended. They hired Linda back. And Dave. And Gary, who now has a badge with his last name on it, Kowalski, and everybody reads it out loud every time. The AI stayed. It has a desk. It has a parking spot, which I priced at fourteen thousand dollars a year, and it does not own a car. It is there every day, doing nothing, with seven little agents on the payroll under Miscellaneous.
Still employed. Still billing. Still, they call it a success.