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.
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"I’ve thought several times that we really need some sort of cute portmanteau of 'LLM' and 'Gell-Mann Amnesia' for the way a lot of LLM-related discourse seems to be people expecting LLMs to take over every job and field except their own."
@ubernostrum, 2026
https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/
@pluralistic you've written about this a few times, and you're good with neologisms, what you got?
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.
