I mean he is kind of speaking truth. Anything Simon posts seems to get upvoted and this article is nothing special or interesting. It's like a tutorial for a feature of a ChatGPT subscription.... Cool.
You can check his domain history to confirm that not everything Simon posts gets upvoted. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net
If is anyone else, then they get themselves banned.
I wrote this because I got frustrated waiting for someone else to figure that out and write about it.
"I find [OpenAI's explanation] almost entirely useless"
"An open question for me right now is how safe all of this stuff is."
"Figuring this all out took way more work than it should have."
Marketing.