Already many comments saying this but Ed Zitron is not a person I trust. He's been so biased and wrong on stuff that I consider very obvious and trivial that his complicated analysis with numbers and trends I can't just take at face value.
As an example of obvious wrong things, I remember a tweet of his where he was mocking people talking about agents and agentic coding. He was kind of saying that he was going crazy as agents weren't a thing really and people talking about them like they were real. Something like "agents?! what agents?! these guys hear themselves?!". The answers were full of hundreds of people patiently explaining how they were actually _using_ agents. This wasn't in 2023, it was a couple of months ago.
He just has an audience and an engagement target. His objective is clicks, not informing.
As an example of obvious wrong things, I remember a tweet of his where he was mocking people talking about agents and agentic coding. He was kind of saying that he was going crazy as agents weren't a thing really and people talking about them like they were real. Something like "agents?! what agents?! these guys hear themselves?!". The answers were full of hundreds of people patiently explaining how they were actually _using_ agents. This wasn't in 2023, it was a couple of months ago.
He just has an audience and an engagement target. His objective is clicks, not informing.