A.I. and time in the workplace

So, a couple weeks ago the president of the company I work for decided that we are all now REQUIRED to use Claude for everything, lest we become, in his exact words, "obsolete humans."

I don't work as a developer and our company produces neither software nor code, but we are expected to dump everything - project status, meetings, customer interactions, emails, client data - into Claude and boss man intends to cuck-code new platforms for us to use instead of the tried and true industry standards we've been using. He says "ai is the future and if you're not using it you'll be left behind." A lot of tech bosses say this, I'm sure.

After a few weeks of working with/in Claude daily for my tasks, letting it build and coordinate web apps to extrapolate what could have been an email or teams message (there are only ten of us employed here) I have realized two things:

1. At least for the tasks I'm using it for, but I suspect also with the tasks many bosses are using it to replace workers for, ai isn't doing anything that computers haven't been doing for ages already, it's just that it now has natural language processing for the input so you don't have to know HOW the thing works to make something that kinda works.
2. In doing what computers have been doing for ages, it's not that it's doing it BETTER, it's just doing it FASTER (and without the overhead of having to pay a human, but that's for sure not their reasoning... right...).

I suppose, in a world where the average typing speed is sub 20wpm on a standard keyboard, anything moving this fast must seem like magic to the uninitiated, but to those of us that have been here in tech land since the days of computers screeching as they were connected to the internet, the things it can do aren't terribly impressive.

Boss man compared ai to the implementation of the internet in his Monday morning talk, but I don't feel that's accurate. The internet CONNECTED humanity across continents, time zones, and cultures (maybe not always for the best), where ai seeks to interrupt P2P human connections in favor of talking with the bot. No, this feels more akin to blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs. A shiny new technology that will eventually find its niche and function (it sure is nice to offload menial tasks that I don't want to do, but could).

I guess what I'm saying is that, in my experience so far, yeah, ai is fast at what it does, and sometimes even pretty accurate, but I don't feel like it's the shiny "god in the machine" that management keeps trying to convince us it is.

I'm interested to hear what others that are working on/with ai systems have to say on the matter. I feel like the further you are from understanding how systems work in the first place, the more like magic ai seems, but I'm curious how people way smarter than me (that aren't trying to sell ai) feel about it.