Public Enemy: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the AI Transformation

Yesterday I was chatting with a friend. I mentioned a project I've been working on recently—using AI to reduce hardware TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), automated tuning, and remote operations. He suddenly said: "Aren't you making yourself a public enemy with this?" I was taken aback. He explained: A large company with hundreds of people originally had an entire team dedicated to performance testing and tuning. Now you write a piece of software by yourself, stuff a few Agents into it, and get all the work done. Aren't you basically stealing jobs from those hundreds of people? Then there's the operations team—originally they opened tickets and followed processes, but now Agents handle everything automatically. Their KPIs have completely vanished. After hearing this, I had a different thought. Large Companies Have Become a Liability The processes, systems, and organizational structures accumulated in the past are not moats in this AI transformation—they're baggage. A small team of three to