An interesting X thread of diverse experiences:
This is a certain kind of talk around LLMs that I find increasingly puzzling. That is all of the people bitching that LLMs constantly generate crap code and hallucinate solutions, and are worthless for programming.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) July 8, 2026
This has almost never happened to me, and never during the last…
My own experience is that it can be useful in providing first drafts for things like business plans, requirements documents, etc., but I have to edit, and many wouldn’t have the knowledge to do it properly or recognize issues. It can be a multiplier of both good and bad.
[Update a while ago]
The wages of AI: Professor bans take-home exams after rampant cheating.
What would terrify me about this if I were a student again would be having to go back to handwriting papers and essays. If I didn’t have a keyboard, I’d have hardly written anything in my life.
What’s going to fail is when management in their infinite… wisdom, decides to completely replace the senior programmers who are able to define the logic succinctly and correctly enough due to experience with junior “AI expert” LLM users.
AI is to your mind what a piece of heavy machinery is to an operator. A tremendous force multiplier but only if you understand how to use it. It can hurt you if you don’t respect it. Wonderful if you know what you are doing, suicide if you are faking it.