Way late edit here, I agree with the disapproval of my statement. I was thinking about how LLM’s kind of work the same way. Designed by humans to make something humans can already do but thousands of times faster. However “revolutionary” was very much the wrong word choice.
I think you’re underselling the automated assembly line quite a bit and how truly groundbreaking it was llm is the progression of an existing technology. AAL was just something completely new.