At my core, as a website developer, I don't want to agree, but I have to, at least in some senses, but not all. Where I don't agree with you is the timeline. I thought we would be way further than we are now. Let's take SIRI and even more simply, autocorrect for example... They don't work properly majority of the time, and how long has that been around? Now the GPT models have gotten a ton better though I will say. I haven't had a chance to mess with the Apple Intelligence, so not sure how good it's working. But I think we are still further out from this type of situation. Maybe 5 years, but again, that's just my opinion as this is yours.

The thing is that it won't be completely running on it's own, AI still needs engineers and information to interact with and learn from. Where people would be smart, if they want to continue having a career in these fields, is to become the person feeding the models and maintaining. I agree that useless professions like marketing agencies and alike will most likely disappear, but the ones that get it and will survive will be building their own AI models in some kind of fashion if they are not all ready. The one's that don't will be gone.

Another problem is mass adoption and education. Many are still scared of AI and won't want to touch it. What will have to happen, the same with blockchain adoption IMHO, is we have to get to a place where people don't know they are interacting with it on a mass level.

As for me, I use AI to assist me with some tasks, but I am not trying to lean on it for anything real. I am one that is seeing this dystopia coming and trying to extract what value I can out of the system into some physical asset (primarily in the form of metals, the projectile kind, and other tools) before it all goes to shit spewing out of a diaper. I used to be all in, but after seeing the last few years, I don't want to be apart of the matrix anymore, lol.