I'm a huge LLM skeptic, but I'd disagree with you here.

I think using ChatGPT to write long-lived code for a serious application is a bad idea. But I think it's fine for somebody knowledgeable to use it for throwaway and first-draft stuff in areas that aren't their daily work.

Here's the author in question: [edit: wrong Piotr Mierzejewski in tech, see below]

He looks perfectly competent to me to evaluate the effects of some one-shot scripting code, so I think "giving away trust and hoping for the best" is a wild exaggeration of what actually went on.