You scoff, but when I watched my theoretical computer science professor in a YouTube seminar (the kind that barely anyone watches) just at the start of the LLM news basically he too saw that humans were done. That was years ago. Academics see things on a different timescale. The issues are deeper than the hype.

At the minimum you ought recognize that world class experts would disagree with your dismissiveness. Trying to explain the differing positions should not earn such immediate dismissal.