Comment by zahlman

> It establishes for granted that LLMs produce more optimized code than performance-oriented humans do.

I didn't read the piece as claiming anything of the sort. I read it as claiming that employers don't care.

The author is well known around here and has demonstrated quite a bit of low-level technical proficiency; see previous submissions https://hn.algolia.com/?q=purplesyringa.moe .