Turing, Church, and even Knuth got their degrees before CS was an academic discipline. At least I don't think Turing studied Turing machines in his undergrads.

I'm saying that lots of people like to post their opinions of LLMs regardless of whether or not they actually have any competence in either computational linguistics or deep learning.

Your whole take is extraordinarily ad hominem. The paper in question is not just people posting opinions.

Sure, but how long ago was that? Do you really think the fields fully decoupled in such a small time? That's the entire point of that comment