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I Don't Like LLMs

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2026-dont-like-llms.html
4•TangerineDream•55m ago

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titaniumrain•33m ago
whining
caution•31m ago
winning
itanium•15m ago
Well llms are imperfect tools that provide a lot of value (they offer leverage in form of agents to put it in Naval Ravikant words). They are here to stay.
verdverm•6m ago
> Fundamentally I don’t think we have a choice about riding on the AI technology train. It’s a wild ride and I just hope we’ll get through it OK.

> I don’t like them. They talk to me in this grating LLM-voice, an uncanny valley of talking to a real human. They confidently bullshit me - often giving me useful, helpful answers. But also just making stuff up with the same assurance - and with only a veneer of fake remorse when I call them out on it.

I think what he needs is a personal fine-tune, something I suspect will become more prominent when we start getting multi-tenant LoRA and can use fine-tunes on a per-token cost basis.

A co-worker commented that he thought the models performed worse after being "embarrassed," suspect it is an artifact of how some conversations progress in the training data.

atulatul•10m ago
Reminded me of someone saying that taste will become an important factor wrt AI tools/ things built with AI. Something like that.