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>What I do know is that a table saw quickly cuts straight lines. That is the thing it does. It doesn’t do Whatever. It doesn’t sometimes cut wavy lines and sometimes glue pieces together instead. It doesn’t roll some dice and guess what shape of cut you are statistically likely to want based on an extensive database of previous cuts. It cuts a straight f*cking line.
>If I were a carpenter, and my colleagues got really into this new thing where you just chuck 2×4s at a spinning whirling mass of blades until a chair comes out the other side… you know, I just might want to switch careers.
One would usually show some kind of evidence after making such a statement. Claims from CEOs of AI companies don't count.
One reason why LLM generated text bothers me is because there's no conscious, coherent mind behind it. There's no communicative intent because language models are inherently incapable of it. When I read a blog post, I subconsciously create a mental model of the author, deduce what kind of common ground we might have and use this understanding to interpret the text. When I learn that an LLM generated a text I've read, that mental model shatters and I feel like I was lied to. It was just a machine pretending to be a human, and my time and attention could've been used to read something written by a living being.
I read blogs to learn about the thoughts of other humans. If I wanted to know what an LLM thought about the state of vibe coding, I could just ask one at any time.
Judging by the other comments this is clearly low-effort AI slop.
> LLMs have certainly damaged trust in general internet reading now, that's for sure.
I hate that this is what we have to deal with now.
On the other hand, if I used an LLM to guess what I wanted to get logged (as the author did), I'd have to read and verify the LLMs output. That's cognitive overhead I normally wouldn't have.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't find myself in situations where I only vaguely know what I want to debug and would benefit from an LLM guessing what that could be.
I worry about the impact of LLMs to the society at large. These models hit the mainstream only a couple years ago and they already have disastrous effects. Not only people send LLM generated emails to each other, that's actually a selling point for many products. I regularly hear about people using LLMs as doctors and therapists. For many, a chatbot could be their only friend or even a partner. Genuine human-to-human interaction is being replaced by chatbots from a handful of megacorporations. It's hard to avoid it. The internet is being flooded by LLM generated garbage that looks like a human could've written it. It's easier than ever to generate misinformation and propaganda, and as a cherry on top the LLMs even help distribute it.
I don't particularly want to live in a society where any of that's considered normal. And that's not even considering the negative impact on the environment. It's hard to be excited about a technology with these downsides that I think severely outweigh any benefits.
Would you consider adding an RSS feed to your website to help people keep up with it?
Also:
> This wasn't something that existed; it wasn't regurgitating knowledge from Stackoverflow. It was inventing/creating something new.
Didn't he expressly ask the LLM to copy an established, documented library?
I think it's dangerously easy to get misled when trying to prod LLMs for knowledge, especially if it's a field you're new to. If you were using a regular search engine, you could look at the source website to determine the trustworthiness of its contents, but LLMs don't have that. The output can really be whatever, and I don't agree it's necessarily that easy to catch the mistakes.
I think the status quo where anyone on any platform can access the vanilla game -- where cheaters may not even be a huge problem depending on one's skill rating -- and the most competitively-minded players have the choice to play on FACEIT, works pretty fine.
I do wonder what the 90% of built-in game content you're referring to actually is.
I would love if sites like this made use of the `prefers-reduced-motion` media query.
There are no guardrails to LLMs. They remove friction from tasks that used to require critical thinking. We're constantly pressured into using them. I think only blaming the end-user is naive.
[0]: https://aeon.co/essays/our-crisis-is-not-loneliness-but-huma...
[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danfitzpatrick/2025/02/26/chatg...
It's not because of JS that semantic HTML and accessibility are neglected: it's because of inexperienced developers. If anything, modern libraries, frameworks and tooling empower developers to build modern UIs that are accessible. Of course, with power comes responsibility, but that's like blaming the car for speeding.
Thank you for sharing this.
To be fair, I was getting seriously fed up by the poor software support at the same time which may have amplified my resentment.