The article is about how AI affects intellectual communities. In my comment above I was focusing on the software engineering community that the first part of the article was discussing, and which I mistakenly took your comment to be referring to.
replyIt’s probably right that when looking at the total of all intellectual communities, the difference in influence of the web versus AI is more nuanced. Nevertheless, I can see AI being more disruptive there overall in the way the article describes. Though I hope that this will turn out to not be the case.
No I don't think you misunderstood, I do think I broadened my take between my comment and my reply to you. I don't mean to imply that I think I have this all figured out or anything, I'm still playing with these ideas in my own mind and trying to figure out what I think.
replyBut I do think that my general sense is that it is both similar in scale to the disruption of the web, and also very different in ways that are hard to suss out at this point.