Huh? The GP makes perfect sense. I’d never trust LLMs blindly, but I wouldn’t hesitate to ask them about any topic. “Trust but verify” is often said about human beings. Perhaps “distrust but ask and verify” is the mantra applicable for LLMs.

I too read it as satire at first, but after thinking twice I think it's a quite reasonable take. I've added "utilize LLM more in my daily life outside programming" to my new year resolution.

I had the flu at the beginning of December, with high fever, the whole nine yards. Keeping a running log with Claude in which I shared temperature readings, medications etc. has been so useful. If nothing else it's the world's most sophisticated rubber duck / secretary, but that's quite useful in many daily life situations on its own. Caveats apply etc.

I'm guessing that mindset is what cause some people to find this scary. I see a new tool and opportunities. Like all tools, it has drawbacks and caveats, but when wielded properly, it can give me more choice. I suspect some others focus too much on flaws and don't bother looking for opportunities. They are expecting a holy grail: if it's not perfect then it's useless.

It's like people who proclaim that Linux as a whole is a useless toy because it doesn't run their favorite games or favorite Windows app. They focus on this one flaw and miss all the opportunities.

Many of these people seem to advocate trusting human professionals. Do you have any idea how often human professionals do a half-assed job, and I have to verify them rather than blindly trusting them? The situation is not that much different from LLMs.

Professionals making mistakes do not make them useless. Grandma, with all her armchair expertise, is often right and sometimes wrong, and that does not make her useless either.

Why let perfect be the enemy of good?

Grandma has a reason to care about you.

At the opposite, my trust of Russian / Chinese / USian platforms is low enough that I consider it my duty to publicly shame people that still use them in 2025.

(With some caveats of course, for instance HN is not a yet negative to the world. Yet.)

There's also the question of stickiness of habits : your grandmas are for life, human professionals you might have a shallow enough relationship with that switching them might be relatively easy, while it might be very hard to stop smoking or to stop using Github once you started smoking / create an account.

You view Github and LLMs as a trap that deliberately give you malicious advice or even brainwash you into addiction? If you view things that way then it's no surprise that you are averse to LLMs (and Github). But frankly I find that entire view to be absurd and overly cynical.