I don’t see it as the author being lazy, actually the opposite, I see it as being performative and a tryhard. Either way it’s annoying and doesn’t make me want to read it.

After looking into it, as I suspected, the author seems to make his living by selling people the feeling that they’re in the cutting edge of the AI world. Whether or not the feeling is true I don’t know, but with this in mind this performance makes sense.