Once this tech is eliminating jobs on a massive scale I'll believe the AI hype. Not to say that couldn't be right around the corner - I have no clue. But being able to perform even just data entry tasks with better-than-human accuracy would be a huge deal.
That’s the risk - a lot of people suddenly flipping their beliefs at once, especially they’re the same people who are losing the jobs. It’s a civil unrest scenario.
The gap between coding agents in your terminal and computer agents that work on your entire operating system is just too narrow and will be crossed over quick.