> It claimed (incorrectly, in my view and in most experts’) that AI could never work because there was something about Gödel’s Theorem and self-reference that no computer program could ever capture

The fact he uses an appeal to “the experts” here for something that is fundamentally a philosophical or metaphysical claim shows he doesn’t actually understand the point.

If LLMs were equivalent to humans then we wouldn’t use them. They would be doing their own thing according to their own will.

I still need to tell the LLM what to do and to direct it according to my will in order to create something that is useful. And I say this as someone spending $600/month on codex and Claude max subscriptions. I’m managing these things all day