Companies that add more AI also add more people

This cuts against the tidy narrative that AI adoption equals headcount cuts, and the mechanism is the actually interesting part, gains only show up for companies spending real money per employee, not the ones dabbling with a chatbot license nobody uses. It also takes six to twelve months to show up, which means most of the hot takes about AI and jobs right now are looking at the wrong window. Read this as evidence that half hearted AI rollouts are close to worthless, not that AI is secretly job neutral everywhere.