I’ve consulted in the software dev teams of dozens of major multinationals and the projects were always, without exception, some variant on “how can we replace people” or “how can we reduce costs by doing something slightly worse”.

Always might be an overstatement, but this has been true over the past couple years for myself and the people I know at these companies. Especially right now - upper management seems to be deluded into thinking that LLMs can do anything, or more likely, they’re just trying to sell hype like everyone else just to raise the stock price.