> First of all, I don't accept a discussion where humans are placed on the same level as bots or agents. Even if the cost is the same, humans MUST be the choice

Sure but getting more done with less is just how productivity gains work. If your talking about crushing an iOS backlog like the OP is it surely will not cost as much as a human to move along tons of bug fixes and accessibility changes etc.

Here are some case studies on recent anecdotal producitivity gains from AI agents https://cursor.com/blog/amplitude, https://devin.ai/customers/ramp, https://www.warmly.ai/p/blog/claude-code-best-practices.

The third one specifically says that a team of 8 "ships like a team of 24".

> Also, trillion dollars valuations are really justified by random solo-devs creating automatic companies of one that could be companies of four?

I feel like your greatly expanding the scope of this thread, I don't really know how to value these things.