I really liked the article, but food for thought: is a transformer that offloads computation to python really that different from Python code being read and then executed by a compiler?

Both examples are of a system we created to abstract most of the hard work.

I think a more important concept here is that the term "AI" has a lot of built-in assumptions, one of which being that it is (or will be) super intelligent, and so folks like the author here think (correctly) that it's important for the AI to be actually doing the work itself.