The argument assumes a naïve pre-hermeneutic subject who could maintain a pure unmediated "self" if only they avoided LLMs. The author is nostalgic for a world that never really existed. Photography ruined painting, digital ruined film, typewriters ruined writing, audiobooks ruined literacy etc etc! This is the same lament lodged by every craft-class when industrialization hits their domain. Programmers aren't special. AI is not a fascist project simply due to the fact that different actors are bound to weaponize it differently, so this take is.. kinda tired and full of blindspots. I could have used my prejudice in figuring that out as soon as it implied that abstinence is superior, but I wanted to give it a fair shot. It ending with self-helpesque advice is just so funny.