” but it only did so by stochastically parroting hallucinated slop”

I’m not sure what the argument here is. That you should only use the most primitive tools available?

”LLMs suck” arguments sound exactly like ”IDE:s suck! True engineers writes everything in notepad.exe”. Or ”debuggers suck! Use only printfs!”

People have different ways of cognition and different strategies of problem solving and tool use. The fact you can’t understand other persons tool use is not an argument against those tools. It simply points out the tools may not be usefull to the critics mode of cognition or problem solving. Not that the tools suck.

They're being sarcastic, they're parodying common objections people have about AI, it's not about the technology at all but about their feeling of obsolescence which impacts their pride.

I was being ironic! I thought the chain of greatest hits in that phrase would give it away, if not the following words.