Using Ai isn't lazier than your regurgitated dismissal, to be fair.

...and it does not work. I tried it on ~10 random pdfs, including very simple ones (e.g. a hello world from typst), it segfaults on every single one.

Wait, but why?

If it's really better than what we had before, what does it matter how it was made? It's literally hacked together with the tools of the day (LLMs) isn't that the very hacker ethos? Patching stuff together that works in a new and useful way.

5x speed improvements on pdf text extraction might be great for some applications I'm not aware of, I wouldn't just dismiss it out of hand because the author used $robot to write the code.

Presumably the thought to make the thing in the first place and decide what features to add and not add was more important than how the code is generated?