@thomasfuchs my sense is that it succeeds now in two places:
1: experts in a field who are also good enough at the setup and config required to create digital workers for their rote and mundane tasks can seemingly do this pretty well if they're coders.
2: using llms to "smooth over" that way programs interact with people works very well -- think voice input and rewriting error message output -- and this does work ok for packaging up into a product or solution to give to a non-coder.