Of course that's the response. In the article he states this response to an interview will end it without an offer. But he's saying it's okay to walk away from

Of course that's the response. In the article he states this response to an interview will end it without an offer. But he's saying it's okay to walk away from what you know from the hiring process is likely to be a bad job. If you're destitute, desperate and dying on the street, this is bad advice. If you are already happily employed, this is good advice. If you are somewhere in between, it's something interesting to think about. Almost as if it were in a long-form blog posted on Hacker News.