This is not an obviously true statement. There needs to be proof that there are no limiting factors that are computationally impossible to overcome. It's like watching a growing child, grow from 3 feet to 4 feet, and then saying "soon, this child will be the tallest person alive."
I mused about this several years ago and still haven't really gotten a clear answer one way or the other.
Use them for the 90% of your repetitive uncreative work. The last 10% is up to you.
It's why people say just write plain Javascript, for example.
Even a moderately powered machine running stockfish will destroy human super gms.
Sorry, after reading replies to this post i think I've misunderstood what you meant :)
But he should've know that people would jump at the opportunity to contradict him and should've written his comment so as not to admit such an easily-contradictable interpretation.
Wasn't trying to just be contradictory or arsey