I'm slightly older than he is and I lived through all those changes he talks about. I'm still in awe every time I fire up Codex. This article sounds like depression talking.
In practice you can ride in a real self-driving car in a dozen major metro areas in the US. I have and they are fantastic.
In practice you can fire up an LLM today and use it for research or writing code or organizing your finances or any of a million incredibly useful things.
At present, the downsides are theoretical and the upsides are practical. The article says more about the author than the state of the world.
In practice, most people are fighting to keep their jobs if they have one, CEOs of corporations are talking daily about AI-driven layoffs and some of them even come to this forum to do exactly the same while talking about how this new era is bright and great. They make money through making other people hopeless and dependent.
The future is uncertain, but most objective metrics in the non-war-torn part of the world are positive right now.
As we got older, we can shift the goalposts and get used to things the way they are. And we need to step back, look and see HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS WILD.