Re: Thoughts about LLM usage

Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:04:21 +0000

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On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 05:33:57PM +0900, Simon Richter wrote:
[...] 
> This perception is similar to how you could buy a newspaper that reports on
> politics, economics and technology and be outraged that the technology
> section is full of false information that could have been avoided by doing
> five minutes of research, but at least their politics and economy sections
> are well-informed — and then you talk to your pol-sci and econ friends, and
> they are full of rage about how their sections are entirely bullshit, but
> praise the technology section.
[...] 
> This is fractally wrong:
> 
> 1. none of us is privileged enough to escape the consequences of damaging
> our ecological or social environment
> 2. even if some of us were, the creation of software is not worth it
> 3. the creation of software is not a goal in itself, but a means to an end
> 4. we won't even get good software out of it.

thank you very much for this long and insightful mail, Simon.


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cheers,
	Holger

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