Yeah, but as accurate as that may be - and absolutely no offense to him - that's not coming from GM.
Here's my theory: It will take a decent amount of time and money to configure the manual with the AFM system. Which is why they didn't really bother to spend those resources to do it with either the Trucks, or the G8. I don't think enough people buy manuals to justify it. But this is the Camaro we're talking about. And since GM hasn't come out and said "Look we don't want to take the time/money to make the manual and AFM work together"...I think they ARE working on it.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think they'll let us down. as far as AFM V8/manual transmission is concerned.