oh come on, a paid shill?
Simon is very fascinated by AI and at times he can be a little too optimistic but he is generally balanced and his perspective evolves over time which can be seen in his writing.
Nerd who loves nerd things a little too much? Sure. Paid shill by Big LLM? Nah.
Yes, a paid shill. You can find a clear point in time where he shifted from sceptic to 1000% fully onboard non-stop praise, with no reason.
The issue is he’s not actually balanced at all. I’ve never seen him say anything negative about an AI product.