I think this is meant to be satire, but it's subtle enough that it went over a lot of heads here. Well, that or I'm reading too much into it, but... Everything

I think this is meant to be satire, but it's subtle enough that it went over a lot of heads here. Well, that or I'm reading too much into it, but... Everything the author said was just as true pre-GPT. He's imparting basic business knowledge under the guise of "oh, now that there's this AI thing, you can't just build it have users show up."