[aurareturn]

Presumably:

1. They think they can control this and sell you a service that can make any app you want nearly instantly.

2. They plan to use any profit they make from the service or sale of the company and invest it in stocks/bonds/real estate after and retire before they themselves get replaced.

3. They plan to use this to keep the team small. One talking point of AI is that it could allow far fewer people to make a valuable company.

4. They don't really know what will happen in that world.