I think for companies to use them is because employees want to use them and there's tons of blog posts (AI written?) that say it increases productivity and you'll be left behind if you don't adopt it.
For startups that basically implement a frontend to chatgpt or similar… well they have no chance of ever being profitable but investors might not know that.
For startups that basically implement a frontend to chatgpt or similar… well they have no chance of ever being profitable but investors might not know that.