Am I the only one extremely bothered by the "By hand, manually. No tools!" line? Read the article, tools everywhere! "He begins by running a software program

Am I the only one extremely bothered by the "By hand, manually. No tools!" line? Read the article, tools everywhere! "He begins by running a software program that he wrote himself"... "he used Google to find the 15,000 or so instances of the phrase" Surely in the very, very beginning he was doing it "manually" but it seems he's built his own tools, and is blurring the lines between bot/human.