New blog post: I got tired of having repetitive arguments explaining why I think it’s OK to be skeptical of LLMs for coding, so I wrote six and a half thousand words on the topic that I will be referring people to from now on.

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/

Let’s talk about LLMs

Everybody seems to agree we’re in the middle of _something_, though what, exactly, seems to be up for debate. It …

James Bennett

Side note:

@ubernostrum
> the dot-com bubble drove mass adoption of the web

This is often assumed but I think it's ahistorical. What I remember is that it was touchscreen mobiles in the late 2010s that drove mass adoption of the web. Along with the mass adoption of apps and social media platforms.

All the DotCom bubble produced was a massive concentration of ownership in the online tech industry.

@onepict