Jonathan Blow on why LLMs cannot program [video]
andy99
13 points
5 comments
June 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
kylecazar
There are some good arguments to be made on the limitations of LLM's for coding... They are not contained in this video. It's an exasperated man claiming you don't understand.
danbmil99
And yet it turns
_aavaa_
Aside from these being assertions rather than arguments, this is from April of 2025 (I.e forever ago).