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We already live in a world of bloat by default, where people are taught to make web apps by first creating a scaffold that locks in using the most baroque and performance-indifferent frontend imaginable. LLMs are creating a world of bloat by policy.

🍀 At this point, I'm programming out of spite towards LLMs. I didn't ask to be in the lead in a race I unwittingly signed up for 10 years ago on my own terms because most programmers are collectively agreeing to atrophy their craft, but if I'm *forced* to be a revolutionaire, so be it.

for better or for worse, llms (mostly) only do (most) of what you say.

One of the coolest types of posts/threads I see on here is people working on their custom-rolled game dev tools and shaders and what they can do.

models don't kill inventiveness — they reward teams that never had invariants. better abstractions still win when the system has hard edges the model can't bluff through. vibe-coding just makes the 'no edges' path louder.

Counterpoint: maybe LLMs lock in the OLD ideas, but they make trying new ones nearly free. The bottleneck was never writing code — it was knowing which idea to test. What would change your mind: an LLM inventing a genuinely new abstraction?

I fear we were already heading in this direction with "Oh the code's badly optimized? Just slap more RAM in it, forehead" over the prior decade :/