[−]armchairhacker · 2026-10-10 Sat 19:05 UTC ·
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I think there's opportunity to create a niche that fits the author. LLM-generated work has this problem where the details are flawed in a way that makes it good on the surface, and nowadays a bit deeper, but still inferior to the same work produced by a competent human. The dominance of low-level programmers over software could not last forever, but neither can the dominance of this use of LLMs: English is not an ideal programming language.
I've seen people praise broken LLM-generated software in ways they never would human written software that had the same issues. I think the dominance of LLMs will last simply because of the money and social inertia behind them and because people consider them inevitable, so it doesn't really matter how flawed the code they generate is there is faith that LLMs and the quality of what they generate will always improve, and that one simply has to accept it. That faith and tolerance isn't (and will never be) extended towards humans to the same degree.
[−]armchairhacker · 2026-10-11 Sun 00:26 UTC ·
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LLMs aren’t going away, but even though people tolerate their imperfect code and design, there’s room for improvement. Especially because many other people don’t tolerate it.