Except it inadvertently showed that LLMs might be more flexible thinkers than most people. Everyone knows…
So, AI will look online and synthesize the latest relevant blog posts. In Gemini's case, it will use trends to figure out what you are probably asking. And since this post caught traction, suddenly the long tail of related links are gaining traction as well.
But had Derek asked the question before writing the article, his links would not have matched. And his point that it isn't the AI that figured out that something has changed, remains relevant.
OT, I really enjoy his posts. As AI takes over, will we even read blog posts [enough for authors like him to keep writing], or just get the AI cliff notes - until there is no one writing novel stuff?