I think a lot of predictions are talking about middle management and front line knowledge workers are running into the truth that LLMs are only as good as the input data, and often give absolute trash output. The revolution might not be exactly as predicted. ML models will still probably replace some paralegals here and maybe a radiologist there, but technological predictions rarely work exactly as predicted.

On the other hand, we are really good at replacing “unskilled” labor with robots when it gets too expensive, and have been doing it for 80 years. Manufacturing plants aren’t the only place it happens:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=dXUX6dv2_Yo