Auto reply emails aren't a new thing. Most come with a disclosure at the end that it's automated and they have a neutral tone "We acknowledge your reported problem, it's been forwarded to our engineers" (so people don't bother replying back).

I personally would rather get a literal auto reply ack e-mail generated by some python script than an LLM response that just rephrases the context. The python script will be more compute efficient too for this usecase.

"yummy good feelings" seems unnecessarily dismissive. I think lots of people have an intuition that when their human communications are handled in an inhuman way (whether that's a phone recording, automated messages whether authored by a human or ai, etc), there is a lack of reciprocity involved that feels disrespectful.

For what it's worth, I really appreciate the author included an e-ink theme. I use an e-ink phone as my primary mobile device and LLMs would never implement an e-ink theme without being explicitly instructed to. For me, this is a more usable site than many.

Having said that, I would have used a 1-bit design to reduce ghosting and set up an option for pagination over scrolling; some e-ink devices handle scrolling fine but others don't.