SAP says its tool cuts building an AI agent to about 2.5 hours from 13. Consultants' project estimates rest on those hours.

Moving "from intent to a working agent takes roughly 2.5 hours instead of 13," SAP said, and its own testing showed 50% lower cost per task. No customer was named for the result.

On most platforms, TechTimes wrote, a developer still has to tell an agent what to do, map it to the right data tables and test the odd cases in the ERP system underneath.

Meanwhile, pay has risen in the jobs most exposed to AI. Pay in those jobs grew around 46% since 2021, against 25% in the least-exposed, according to the Dice Tech Sentiment report cited by the IT news site CIO.com.

For an SAP consultant, an estimate in days becomes the quote for a project or a change request. Our reading: if a 13-hour build really takes 2.5 hours, clients will ask why the estimate did not shrink. The paid part of the job moves towards choosing which process deserves an agent and checking what it does once it runs.