By the reply count it appears this post was excellent at trolling HN's core audience :-). The author may be right, but his preface "look I'm one of you" was in a very different tone to the rest of his "now shut up and get to work" rant.

I do use the AI tools to some extent, if for no other reason than that they are currently the path of least resistance, and google+friends have lately played themselves out of the game.

He is probably right we should get acquainted with using agents before dismissing it :-).