Programming

It's not weird. The good side of the LLM craze is that its failures are documented at length all over the Internet. It's in every tech blog out there, even in those run by users of agents. There isn't a day without a LLM article on the front page of HN and Lobster.rs.

I don't actually hate the tech itself, and, like most, am pretty impressed at what it can do at the moment - the way I'm impressed by what the useless Boston Dynamics robots can do.

I oppose LLM usage for practical, very rational reasons. The most important aspect is an ethical one: the planet is burning, I don't want to make things worse by using something that barely even works.

There is another, very important aspect: I can't actually run it locally, which means relying on it means depending on external suppliers from an enemy country that may cut the pipes without prior notice, as it tried to do very recently.

Additionally, the costs are very high, increasing and enshittification has barely even started. Once monopolies are established, I don't want to have to pay soaring cartel prices for a shitty service I could have avoided depending upon to begin with.

There's still a broad range of domains that are fundamentally incompatible with usage of LLMs because of reliability and/or confidentiality reasons, and I want to remain employable as a software engineer and stand out from the legion of CRUD developers whose skills will inevitably atrophy as LLM adoption increases.

I do see how I could use them sporadically, but cf. reason #1. Using LLMs is immoral.

And I do know how to do my job. I don't have a velocity issue. As they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.