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I think that the biggest thing is that it's useful for search engine replacement if you can be bothered to actually check the links it cites.
For coding it's getting good, but not as good as people say it is. It's mostly much more scalable due to parallelization being cheaper and easier to attain. I.e. if you run 19 agents in parallel with one human vs train 20 humans, the agents will always win on consistency. But the skills of the single human are infinitely more impactful in the agentic setting than the skills of all humans combined in the human team setting: there are no complementary skills in the former setting, no real synergy; just scale and cheap restarts.
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Have never consciously used AI though aware it is creeping into a lot of content we see online whether we like it or not - tbh am highly skeptical of it.
But yes it is a fascinating topic and I do want to try and learn more about it.
I do follow it casually and the article you linked is the only one I have seen which challenged what I see as the dominant narrative of AGI being portrayed as the holy grail being sought by the Big US Tech giants in contrast to the more pragmatic/utilitarian approach the Chinese appear to be taking.