> it can still massively reduce the amount of human labour required for many tasks.

I want to see some numbers before I believe this. So far my feelings is that the best case scenario is that it reduces the time it needs to do bureaucratic tasks, tasks that were not needed anyway and could have just been removed for an even grater boost in productivity. Maybe, it seems to be automating tasks from junior engineer, tasks which they need to perform in order to gain experience and develop their expertise. Although I need to see the numbers before I believe even that.

I have a suspicion that AI is not increasing productivity by any meaningful metric which couldn’t be increased by much much much cheaper and easier means.