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Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

3 July 2025

Given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs, maybe sheep dogs are a better analogy than a table saw! bsky.app/profile/simo...

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net

That's entirely true: they are non-deterministic, which means you have to learn how to use them in a way that takes that into account Sheepdogs are non-deterministic too, they're still invaluable tools for someone who learns how to work with them

Gordon Hundley

@drgoon.bsky.social

3 July 2025

Using an LLM is like having an adversarial agent data mining my research methodology and encumbering me with irrelevant distractions. It's an ADHD sheep dog that forgot to take its Ritalin and is being distracted by an orgy of squirrels and bouncing balls.

Hoody Guthrie

@the-ballmer-peak.bsky.social

3 July 2025

All I can say is you must be an amazing developer or a terrible LLM user. I've been coding for 30 years and I can build things orders of magnitude faster now than I could before.

@matthewsinclair.com

Agree. Are they perfect? No. Neither am I. Are they useful? For sure! Am I better with one in my tool kit? Absolutely. Are they overhyped? Hell yeah! Sadly, so is everything new in tech. I just don’t get the hate. Lean in. Learn how to use them. Get better. Lather rinse repeat. #kthxbye

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