I don't think the author is in the camp of unconditionally hyping AI: https://dmitrybrant.com/2023/03/25/artificial-stupidity

Even without that other article, this really reads like the author tried it for menial tasks on a neat passion project, and reports his success on it. (I'm a kernel developer, so I can empathize.)

The post was created to show how AI helped this person solve their particular problem - which it appeared to do successfully.

Other people commenting about AI hype on the post isn't an indication that the post itself was created to hype AI, or that that the post itself is "bad".

This isn't really hype, since in this case it actually built something. They're talking about reasonable uses of "AI", which this is one example of.

One man's AI hype is another man's tangible productivity boost and/or UX improvement.