I think it is applicable to a much wider range of knowledge work, but it's also harder to apply there.

Software development has the huge advantage that mistakes and hallucinations are very easy to spot: the software works or it doesn't.

Spotting errors in a research report or legal brief is a whole lot harder!

But... non-software professionals spend a huge amount of their time on tasks that can be safely automated - reformatting documents, extracting numbers from PDFs, all kinds of flavor of data entry.

Learning how to use a tool like Claude Cowork can take a big dent out of those.

If the AI can write code for robots the impact in other fields may be pretty large. Seems to me a lot of jobs can be automated with software and robots combined. The limit in the past was writing the software to get the robots to work. But if AI can remove that limit...