The post is silly, but I do not expect Zitron's commentary to be particularly illuminating as he is a charlatan himself. I could point to many examples, but here is a blog post I wrote about one case of him trying very hard to not understand a simple and familiar situation: https://crespo.business/posts/cost-of-inference/.

Something Small is Happening

https://x.com/johnpalmer/status/2021966462198460849?s=12

1) faking benchmarks and lying about a model he profited from commercially (ie. fraud)

2) implying that only a few people (like himself) saw COVID coming. This is a lie: it was the New York Times that published a huge article on the coronavirus at the time indicated, and he, of course, didn't see it coming

3) he doesn't just fail to disclose his commercial interests in what he's peddling, he denies them

4) he confidently states that AI builds the next generation of AI, which he can't know, and has not been stated anywhere

The list goes on.

The original article is also silly, as you say. It's just two tiresome cranks barking at each other. (Though I think I find Zitron's commentary less tethered to reality than what it's critiquing. Hypomanic exaggeration vs. deeply incurious pedantic skepticism.)