Imagine anthropomorphing this hard.

You misunderstood. This is how the conversation went:

1. Is there steady progress in AI?

2. What example do you need? In every single benchmark AI is getting better and better.

3. Job satisfaction and human flourishing.

Hence my answer "AI is very satisfied in doing the job, just ask it". It came about because of the stupid comment 3, which tried to link and put a blame on unrelatable things (akin to refering to obesity when asked what metrics make him say that agriculture/transportation have not made progress in the last 100 years) and at the same time anthropomorphed AI. I only accepted the premise and continued answering on the same level in order to demonstrate stupidity of their answer.