2026-02-20 23:29 UTC
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@komali_2@mastodon.social 2026-02-21 11:53
@dalias@hachyderm.io @xgranade@wandering.shop denying the usefulness of LLMs seems a bit wrongheaded at this point. I've been an engineer a decade now, at this point I don't really encounter things I can't build myself anymore, but LLMs let me build them far more quickly. 1000x more quickly? Absolutely not. But measurably quickly. I use this added time to increase my personal leisure as well as finally get some civic hacking done I've had on the to-do for years.
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@matt@toot.cafe 2026-02-21 13:06
@dalias@hachyderm.io Doctorow seems to feel that this is what he would be doing; he finds the LLM useful. And some programmers I follow and respect feel that way about their LLM-based coding agents (using the big rented models, not a local one like Doctorow), that they'd be denying themselves something useful and putting themselves at a disadvantage for moral reasons.