Raw LLM Responses

I'm a genx tech manager but like to keep my hand in. I'd say I'm fairly AI aware. I've recently built a few projects using agentic tools and they are amazing - instead of being a Dev I'm essentially being a product owner, providing business cases and validating the outputs. Fantastic. But here is the thing. I spent my entire month's budget of requests in a single day, have no idea how my code base works (I have great docs but why read them?) and much of my time was spent asking and reasking the same question when the result wasn't quite right. I got a good tool out of it but did I learn anything? When (not if) request costs rocket those people they have built their position on AI will have to justify themselves all over again and the economics won't make sense. We'll have a spaghetti stack of inconsistent solutions with no common standards, technologists with no core understanding of how anything works and production issues coming out of every nook and cranny. AI budgets will rocket, leveling out way higher than the pre-ai numbers because the big players will have consolidated into a duopoly who can charge what they want. With any luck I'll be retried by then but there is storm coming and it isn't the layoffs. It is what comes afterwards.