I sure don't miss the footguns and raw boilerplate that is having a copy constructor, move constructor, copy assignment operator, move assignment operator, and destructor, per class.
Yes, you should avoid the manual memory management that necessitates writing them. But work with a team of developers fresh out of school and next thing you know your codebase will be brimming with this kind of busywork.
"Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever."
I think it's clear that he is specifically responding to the the overall soullessness of the technique - to animate without a human understanding of what is being animated. But as others have pointed out this is well before modern AI image gen and I have been corrected in that aspect.
"Well, we would like to build a machine that can draw pictures like humans do"
"Would you?"
"Yes"
Awkward silence
From this I don't think it's difficult to extrapolate his feelings about modern AI image gen. But you are correct in that this is not a direct assessment. Appreciate the correction, thanks.
Not to mention, 99^6 = 941,480,149,401 ≠ 99,000,000 (which TFA also quotes). But who's to say notation didn't degrade along with the rest of society? :^)
Yes, you should avoid the manual memory management that necessitates writing them. But work with a team of developers fresh out of school and next thing you know your codebase will be brimming with this kind of busywork.