I don't know, it reads like a pure copium at this moment.

While Zitron continuously whined about the "AI bubble", and how the models were not improving, and how spectacularly it should've blown, these same people who Doctorow accuses of, quote,

"cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror",

unquote, kinda promised, among other things, to give everyone an APT-level big and automated hacking bazookah, and now surprise-surprise three years later they delivered exactly on that promise, and now Doctorow is victim blaming everyone around that they were unprepared for that!

But it was you who said it was all hype, smoke and mirrors, it was you who said the AI is quote,

"a product of limited utility that has been shoehorned into high-stakes applications that it is unsuited to perform",

unquote, why are you suddenly surprised everyone around was not inspired to do anything around it?

The real world software threat model was never suited for a relentless hacker-ex-machina, limited only by the token count you can throw at the task. And maybe we didn't prepare in time because no one believed in possibility of such a machine, because people like you said it was just for-profit scaremongering?

Give or take, AI evangelists gave us all a pretty wild and unbelievable set of expectations few years back. I didn't believe them back then too. But now they're steadily delivering on _some_ of them, and we should be correcting our world model to take into account _all_ of them might be true, instead of making up reasons why other predictions will certainly fail.