Agreed, by his definition a word processor or IDE, or even an operating system is not a tool because you aren’t directly controlling it.

Or filling voodoo.md with just the right incantations. You are only a software update from everything you’ve ‘learned’ being rendered obsolete by the latest algorithm.

Ok but software engineering is filling voodoo.cpp or whatever with the right incantations, and if a new c++ version with drastic changes comes out, much of what you learn can and will be rendered obsolete.

If he wanted to focus on anything it should have been the non-deterministic property of LLMs. How the same input does not generate the same output.