Indeed. Francois Chollet himself said during his interview with Dwarkesh that he is not against LLMs and in fact believes that the long-term solution mixes LLMs

Indeed. Francois Chollet himself said during his interview with Dwarkesh that he is not against LLMs and in fact believes that the long-term solution mixes LLMs with something else which has not been discovered yet (his bet is on discrete program search but is open to anything else). Pitching him against LLMs in such a binary fashion is deceiving and unfair.