No, it literally is a programming package + some data.

What are you even talking about? LLMs, which is mostly what "AI" has been referring to in this conversation, are text prediction systems. You prompt it with text and it tries to predict what text comes next based on its statistical model generated from its training data. Add some cute pre-prompting and wrapping of user input behind the scenes, and you can give it an imperative interface that gives the impression that it's responding to user queries and instructions. The output is entirely too unreliable and the input entirely too imprecise to be valuable to anyone with good intentions, but I digress. The point is that it has nothing to do with programming, other than that if code was part of the training data, the model can be induced to generate text that includes code, and some products exist that have been optimised to generate and interact with code.

"Agentic" (ugh) just means that the model was induced to generate output in a format that the client can parse and turn into actual operations, like deleting a database. I guess that kind of overlaps with what a pipeline or a script can do, but I'm not entirely sure where you're going with that, I'm pretty sure I already made it clear that it's not my view that AI can actually replace workers, just that it can be used to keep up the pretense that it can for long enough to cause harm.

First of all let’s not act like my exasperation with the world’s stupidity is some sort of lapse in my judgement. I’m getting the ability find algorithms and debug faster to write better code, and occasionally asking it for terms I can search for to find information. That’s it. I’m not revealing some deep political bias you can use to ignore my underlying argument.

It's not just that line, everything you've been saying suggests that's what your view is. You've acknowledged yourself that the real use cases of AI are very limited, but despite that insist that that alone is worth dealing with all the problems that come with it, and we should just hold the bad people using it for bad things accountable, as if it were that easy (not to mention that sometimes there is no person to hold accountable, because it's the model itself causing the problem). All for a small sliver of value to you, that in my mind doesn't even exist. How is AI itself not part of the problem here?

Yes, a lot of the problems associated with AI are just worse versions of problems that already existed. Workers getting laid off by the thousands to raise shareholder value, misinformation, assholes on the internet trying to get people to kill themselves for the "lulz" etc. And these problems need to be solved regardless of AI existing. But the existence of AI makes these problems worse and harder to solve. So you'll have to excuse me that I'm not very keen on the idea of letting our enemies have mechanised infantry so we can have a toy to play with.