My point is that saving 1,000 hours each day doesn't actually give you 1,000 hours a day to do things with.

You still get your 24 hours, no matter how much time you save.

What actually matters is the value of what is delivered, not how much time it actually saves you. Justifying costs by "time saved" is a good way to eat up your money on time-saving devices.

If I "save 1000 hours" then that could be distributed over 41.666 days, so no task would need to be performed during that period because "I saved 1000 hours".

You could also say you saved 41.666 people an entire 24 hour day, by "saving 1000 hours", or some other fractional way.

How you're trying to explain it as "saving 1000 hours each day" is really not making any sense without further context.

And I'm sure if I hadn't written this comment I would be saving 1000 hours on a stupid comment thread.

You're overthinking it.

It's like this coupon booklets they used to sell. "Over $10,000 of savings!"

Yes but how much money do I have to spend in order to save $10,000?

There was this funny commercial in the 90s for some muffler repair chain that was having a promotion: "Save Fifty Dollars..."

The theme was "What will you do with the fifty dollars you saved?" And it was people going to Disneyland or afancy dinner date.

The people (actors) believed they were receiving $50. They acted as if it was free money. Meanwhile there was zero talk about whether their cars needed muffler repair at all.

> Meanwhile there was zero talk about whether their cars needed muffler repair at all.

It's called "Thinking past the sale". It's a common sales tactic.

I think one issue is that you won't always be able to invoice those extra 999 hours to your customer. Sometimes you'll still only be able to get paid for 1 hour, depending on the task and contract.

But the llm bill will always invoice you for all the saved work regardless.