He doth protest too much.

We might be a bit suspicious of the sincerity of a man who spent 20 years evangelizing the beauty and expressiveness of code, and who felt he was a pioneer in that field, and who then finds himself and his life's work completely obsolete, when he tells us how excited he is about LLMs never letting him never write code again.

Which stage of grief is "delirium"? After we accept the death of our child, are we euphoric?

I mean, he is kind of spelling it out for you there: "there's only one play here".