I try to keep track of what’s going on among those who use LLMs for coding but they all keep linking Steve Yegge and I just can’t take anybody who links to Steve “gas town” Yegge seriously.

He’s the opposite of convincing.

@baldur well, I’ve linked to it seriously a couple of times to illustrate the mental health toll of LLM addiction 😬
@baldur it’s too much even for Armin Ronacher https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/
(not that that made him stop using LLMs in anyway apparently…)
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
@ced well, there also where lots of smokers who freely talked about the dangers of smoking but didn’t stop and they all thought they had good reasons. @baldur