Why would they ask those questions when the author claimed earlier that they did a write up of the project which likely contained those answers:
> Ladyada checked the pins, verified the dimensions, and shipped a board. Then she wrote it up because that’s what we do here: we test tools openly so others can decide for themselves.
In addition, maybe it's because I don't use any social media but I can't imagine she is the only person to have received this level of hate for using AI. This happened after an already particularly fiery public spat with Sparkfun and the public defense of Arduino. This didn't happen in a vacuum.