[philipswood]

My read:

Isaac Su seems to be irritated and mildly triggered that people don't think or act like LLMs aren't just dumb, mute, simple tools.

Instead of talking about THAT, he is doing a weird combination strawman/bikeshed-like post about the different imagined, nuanced reasons why he imagines people credit LLM input in attribution.

A more honest take would be:

"Some of you are ascribing more sentience and agency to LLMs than I feel comfortable with. Stop doing that. I'm obviously and fundamentally right that they are dumb tools that can never threaten my intellectual and emotional security or human superiority."

Whether they are right or wrong — one reason that many people are giving credit is that they feel that (at some at level at least) that Claude/DeepSeek/Gemini/etc. is acting enough like a participant or partner to deserve being given credit.