If AGI is coming, won't there just be autofishers and no one will ever have to fish again, completely devaluing one's fishing knowledge and the effort put in to learn it?

I'm not sure if this was the intention of the analogy, but fishing poles don't have reels.

In regards to copilot, they’ve also been led on a fishing expedition to the middle of a desert

Or give them a stick with twine and a plastic fork as a hook, as is the case with Copilot.