[lowsong]

> They cite cherry picked announcements showing that LLM usage makes development slower or worse. They opened ChatGPT a couple times a few months ago, asked some questions, and then went “Aha! I knew it was bad!” when they encountered their first bad output instead of trying to work with the LLM to iterate like everyone who gets value out of them.

"Ah-hah you stopped when this tool blew your whole leg off. If you'd stuck with it like the rest of us you could learn to only take off a few toes every now and again, but I'm confident that in time it will hardly ever do that."

[Aurornis]

> "Ah-hah you stopped when this tool blew your whole leg off.

Yes, because everyone who uses LLMs simply writes a prompt and then lets it write all of the code for them without thinkng! Vibecoding amirite!?

[ThrowawayR2]

To be fair, that does seem be a very common usage pattern for them, to the point where they're even becoming a nuisance to open source projects; e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45330378