It's got a long way to go to even stack up to bad programmers that somehow are always able to find a job somewhere.
While you are free to make up any definition you want on the spot, so are others. Yes, language models are just plain old boring machine learning like any other, but machine learning is a subset of what most people consider to be the area of AI.
> When we get actual AI (not counting on anytime soon) it will be more than the annoyed developer that loses their job
Again, while you can define things however you please, so can everyone else. This is what most people would consider AGI, not AI.
Modern generative stuff like LLMs and image diffusers counts at least as much as the various older used-to-be-AI things.
On the other hand, if you ask it if it's artificially intelligent, it says yes: https://chatgpt.com/share/37517e92-4c53-4053-846f-ab513e1dc9...