>about how LLMs are just statistical machines and not really thinking,

I don't think the article said anything about statistics?

This seems to be a sort of Rorchasch test but looking at it again:

>This does not bode well for my interest in meeting new people

It really does seem to me the article is making fun of people who think this sort of article is on point.

There's a genre of satire where the joke is that it makes you ask "Who the heck is the sort of person who would write this?"

It could fit in that genre but of course I could be wrong.