I had this very same argument today. It was claimed that a once per year data mapping process of unstructured data that we sell via our product - would not scale. The best part is if we somehow had ten of these to do it would still be something that would take less than a year. Currently it takes a single person a few weeks and makes millions of dollars. This is the sort of fiddly work that you can find an Ontologist for and they’re happy to do it for the pay.

I’m unsure what is unattractive about this but I guess anything can be a reason to spend a year playing with LLMs these days.

I’ve had the same problem with compliance work (lightly regulated market) and suddenly the scaling complaints go away when the renewals stop happening.