Skimming a document in a few moments and understanding the gist of it is also a skill a lot of humans have! But not surprising a bunch of borderline illiterate tech guys don't think this is even possible

tbh i would be concerned if it confabulated stuff that wasn't in the original text and wouldn't trust it for anything remotely load-bearing

Every "useful" application of AI I hear about is basically cutting a few minutes out of an employee's day. Like the OP says, it smells like something that will let you cut a quarter of your workforce, in actuality it's a tool that's going to cost too much to be worth utilizing relative to savings

I have been the technical writer (with a Humanities background) in a software dev lab full of STEM people for seven years now, and they’re all still astonished when I do it.