The speaker argues that AI investment should be judged by end-to-end process automation and reductions in human effort or task duration, not simply by spend.

“[laughs] And that's also the wrong focus. Like, the focus shouldn't be on how much you're spending, but, like, how much end-to-end... Like, in terms of systems thinking- Yes...”

“you should be thinking, like, in terms of how many end-to-end processes are you actually solving that where you no longer need a human in the loop, or collapsing down long-running human problems that suddenly become very short problems.”