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Comment by cfeduke | original | Grieving the loss of details
[−]cfeduke · 2026-10-11 Sun 01:27 UTC · link
Perhaps I'm just daft or slow, but I'm not 10x-ed by LLM usage. It's precisely because the details matter. (And yes, I read the article and it's lamenting the loss of low level machine-level details.) I read the LLM output, it slows me down. I challenge the LLM output assumptions, that slows me down. I stop to step away and think, it slows me down. I cannot run a bunch of simultaneous prompts and supply this same level of mental context to all of them, because my brain works best when I treat it as single-threaded. My experience with this approach to using an LLM has been, so far, positive.

What I have noticed as I've migrated to newer models is that the assumptions made are incorrect less often. But if I don't pay close attention wrong assumptions can still be made. Cross cutting concerns are lost, or written in such a way as to be useless.

So, the loss of details, to me, would be my own laziness in not performing due diligence.