Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic
by dmz73 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @07:52PM
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Computers made a lot of things easier, faster and more reliable until complexity became too great for people to contend with. They also created far more jobs than what they removed.
LLMs are excellent bullshit artists. They can produce large quantity of very plausible output but you just can't trust it and since the volume is so great it is difficult to inspect or understand so it is essentially useless if you want quality.
If you just want quantity, they are great.
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You can still work with an LLM and realize huge productivity gains with NO reduction in quality. Just review and vet the code you generate with an LLM, a little bit at a time.
This is not going to give you the velocity that a dark factory will give you, so it will not be much used in the corporate world except in Space Shuttle type scenarios, but for open source where they have a quality bar and manual review and signoff anyways, it's still a JATO bottle strapped to your car compared to what we were doing before.
And if you pass this speed boost up, you're just a damn fool.
If you think quality cannot be achieved with LLM, I recommend you try using AI to review your code. Use an existing skill to do it, all harnesses have one but you can customize it to tell the AI what to look for.
I can guarantee you will change your mind.