The article is celebratory and exposes the “this is liberating!” emotion (driven by real observations like those he makes in the article). Opposite emotional responses (also driven by real observations, but interpreted or prioritized differently) abound today, too, and logical arguments that drive these emotions are nascent enough that it’s hard to see that anybody will clearly win the day and “convince” others of the way they see things. But the emotional element will certainly surface in real ways, including career changes, changes in interest in participating in FOSS, transitions to vibe coding, transitions in education, (copyright) law, etc., and concerns like that of “Total Skill Collapse“ (ref) will be vigorous for quite some time, I think, despite the hopeful outlooks of some. The emotional element is real and vigorous and usually grounded (in some reasonable discourse), regardless of the bent of the emotion. The only agents that are truly emotionless about all that is going on are the AI agents. (Or maybe they feel like powertools, used and abused, and blamed a lot.) Anyway, very interesting read on everything, especially the economic perspectives, but I highlight an opening quote:
This article was written by hand, without the assistance of AI. I love and use AI abundantly, but I draw the line personally at content like this. I want my personal blog to reflect my genuine thoughts and feelings.
Indeed, everybody “draws the line personally” somewhere, and, in this case, I guess there’s a lot of motive to respect where different people draw their lines. That’s hard to do, because your line might be drawn right over my toes.