I think the author gestures at a pretty solid argument that most of the "mechanical" arguments for LLM capabilities have a clear trend line towards "can do thing".

Strictly speaking, the job he's describing even falls into that category, there's just not a lot of training data for it.

Anecdotally this has matched what I've seen. Which is unfortunate because the part of tech I like the least, regarding software development, is when the thing that was built was actually used for anything.

I got into this specifically, and exclusively, for the craft. I don't like making other's lives " better", I don't like "solving problems", I don't like the customer. But here we are staring down the barrel of a career making "products".