Building on that, how long did the AI take to draft the 77 news articles? Now ask a human to draft 77 articles in that same amount of time and see how many errors there are...
Not OP, and I don't think it directly indicates how smart you are, but it does show you are at or above some smartness threshold (i.e. smart enough to get the answer).
If you don't get the answer, you might still be above that smartness threshold, but didn't get it for some other reason (didn't have time to study, didn't sleep enough the night before, interview anxiety, etc.).
I think their point is that anecdotes are not very valuable and then gave examples of anecdotes that differ as a way to show that individual experiences / perceptions can be vastly different, which isn't at odds with their original point.
A lot of street drugs have never even had a chance to "run the gauntlet" so it's really not necessarily fair to rule them out. Which isn't to say that they _are_ effective, but we can't really rule them out just for being "street drugs".
I personally have seen the opposite problem - the friction of making small changes to "utility" libraries becomes a huge pain point for developers when you have to make changes, test locally, push to package manager, update all consumers to use the new version... It's much easier, in my experience, to just consume a class that's already in the same project / repo.
I don't go into the code I wrote 6months ago knowing exactly what every line does, but I remember the broad strokes about what it is generally doing, where different logic will live, and it makes it much easier to jump back into code I wrote 6months ago vs code I've never seen before.