Before LLMs, empire building was a very large incentive to hire. Teams tended to become larger than they needed to be so the boss feels good about their life choices.

LLMs do not fix this problem, they make it worse. Instead of the team being oversized, they’re now way oversized. It is still in everyone’s best interest to look busy anyways and LLMs do help a lot with that.

I'm not saying it happened, I am saying they are working hard towards that goal as a business priority, and spending a lot of money on it.

Software engineers are first, but other fields like finance and radiology have huge targets on them too.

No need to downvote. Just provide a counter example...