Our annual spending on pure subscription-based SaaS like Claude, Gemini, Manus, Granola, AI CRM, and CodeRabbit is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and server costs are on another level entirely. Recently, we started using an ERP/CRM product that’s incredibly strong in all aspects, even surpassing many established vendors, yet the entire team behind it consists of just two people. Their productivity absolutely blew my mind. After fully integrating AI, the most noticeable change is how quickly the gap in team capabilities has widened. Some people adapt to new tools quickly, significantly boosting their efficiency and building an AI-native workflow for the team. Others, however, remain stagnant, struggle to adapt, or even instinctively resist, and they’re gradually being phased out. To be honest, since June of last year, many of our HR strategies have already been AI-driven. It wasn’t until then that I truly understood what 'driven by AI' means. Essentially, it’s AI driving us—we’re just the workhorses (in a good way). AI is exponentially amplifying my intolerance for incompetence. Starting this year, hiring standards need to change. If someone can’t use AI proficiently, it’s like being a caveman who doesn’t know how to use the internet—they’re destined to be incompatible with this new mode of productivity.