The shared understanding gap will be closed as the initial benefactors of LLMs develop tools for the business that apply frontier models to their domain.

I have reached a point with a client where non-developers are beginning to experience the full power of modern reasoning models. Their product configuration tooling is now semi-automated and in many cases there is genuinely a 10-100x improvement in throughput. This isn't the worst bottleneck (that would still be the customers), but it's a really big one.

If non-developers in your personal and professional circles are still wondering what all the noise is about, it's possible you haven't been working very hard on adapting these tools to their problems.