@xgranade @ireneista I’ve disliked LLMs almost from the start — fortunately, I inadvertently inoculated myself against the hype at the very start by triggering bullshit with mundane prompts — but I agree, there’s something from the last year or so, even more so the last 6 months, that’s been especially unnerving.

Like the people who literally cannot function in perfectly ordinary tasks — and who show no signs of this difficulty being a probable and understandable long-term condition/neurodivergence/etc. — without asking a chatbot. The learned helplessness I’m seeing — and I say this as someone who sometimes struggles with this issue myself — is *off the charts*, far beyond what I’ve seen in other technology scenarios.

Or programmers and developers who have gone full speed ahead into “agentic” AI, swearing up and down it’s making them insanely productive — but they often either can’t or won’t tell just what it is they’re producing, except for an ever-increasing number of “agents”. The ones who are clearly producing something other than “more agents” appear to mostly be producing tools to create or organize or orchestrate agents. And the agents are doing… what? Mostly trivial things that could be done with existing automation tech, or cranking out more software to wrangle more agents. The amount and quality of new software in general does not correspond at all to the alleged productivity claims.

Those are just two rather prominent examples. I actively *do not* want to deskill myself to this level or even have a higher risk of it happening.