You don't have to

jrflowers

Tl;dr: Over sixteen thousand words about how the author doesn’t really use language models very much but might in the future

wewewedxfgdf

This was so wordy I had to ask an LLM to tell me what the point is. So you don't have to: "you don’t have to embrace a trend, tool, or narrative simply because others say you should — especially if it doesn’t resonate with you or align with your values" An important new twist to add to the great AI versus NO AI discussion.

hexasquid

"If I cared as much as I want you to, I'd have written a shorter article"

abound

> There were entire classes of Hacker News submissions that I refused to read the comments on. Including the comments about this article, should such comments ever materialize. The author has made the correct call. There's a pretty deep irony that all the top-level comments at the time of this writing are about how the article is too long. It's quite clearly not trying to succinctly convince you of a point, it's meant to be a piece of genuinely human writing, and enjoyed (or not!) on the basis of that.

timfsu

I for one enjoyed this very long essay. It should've been a lot shorter, but you also didn't have to read it, it says right there in the title :)