He was always long-winded and discursive (in the needs-and-editor way, not the interesting way) but I'd actually enjoyed his earlier works (this one is pretty popular: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...)

This new stuff just sucks.

From the article: "My AI expanding my one-liner prompt into a 1000-word essay that is summarized to a one-liner tldr by your AI is a value-adding process because your consumption context is different from my production content."

I'm not even sure what the author is suggesting here.