Quite apart from all other considerations, my problem with all this is: LLMs are no longer tools assisting us. We are tools assisting them. I don’t want to spend my life as an “LLM output checker”.

How long is that going to even work assuming you can find people willing to do it? Right now it occasionally does, but at what point will the group of people with the skills required to do so have shrunk and their abilities degraded to the point where everything devolves into a blind leading the blind scenario? LLMs have been trained on our code. Now we’re being trained on theirs, and it’s not going to end well.

God I hate it when an article sucks me in with a title about how LLMs are useless trash but then goes on to include shit like this:

I write this as a practitioner, not as a critic. After more than 10 years of professional dev work, I’ve spent the past 6 months integrating LLMs into my daily workflow across multiple projects. LLMs have made it possible for anyone with curiosity and ingenuity to bring their ideas to life quickly, and I really like that!

Maybe the author is trying to preach to the hoodwinked and avoid being summarily dismissed by the AI hype spreaders before they even start writing the article. But surely they’ve already sabotaged any chance at breaking through the brainwashing with the title.

If any of you ever write about how shit LLMs are, please please please don’t feel like you have to dedicate any portion of your article at all to granting them any charity. I assure you, they deserve absolutely none.

Holy gracious sakes… Of course… Thank you… thank you… dear katanaquant, from the depths… of my heart…
There’s still belief in accountability… in fun… in value… in effort… in purpose… in human… in art…

Related:
- http://archive.today/2026.03.07-020941/https://lr0.org/blog/p/gpt/ (I’m not consulting an LLM…)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20241021113145/https://slopwatch.com/posts/bad-programmer/