Mastodawn

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 …

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Su-Shee

@ubernostrum I believe this article might shed some light on the dissonance between "code quality" and "still just not right". it has the right code on a low level and some of the right primitives but it's put together badly - the elusive "good design" somewhere between code and architecture: https://medium.com/coding-nexus/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code-it-writes-plausible-code-cd910b4cd210

Your LLM Doesn’t Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code.

Here’s a simple test. Primary key lookup. 100 rows. SQLite: 0.09 ms. LLM-generated Rust rewrite: 1,815.43 ms.

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