The person you're talking to has no critical thinking skills and is part of the reason everything is fucked up.

Given how many people fail learning from history, I can see why WasabiWabbit@lemmy.ca decided to betray his class. The foundations of class consciousness doesn't exist. So we’ll continue repeating the poem of history.

the human isn't needed at all at that point.

Yes. This is the point they were making. On the current trajectory, and very soon to boot, many tasks — like writing code — will be entirely automated. That is exactly the goal of nearly every corporate player with any skin in this game, and for better or worse, it looks like this will indeed come to pass.

What value that leaves for human endeavor and understanding in these areas is an important but entirely separate matter.