this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
88 points (90.7% liked)
Technology
87183 readers
3870 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
.... What?
Lazy people using tools in a shitty manner has been an age old problem.
This just lets it scale, which is the problem. There used to be a barrier to entry for those less knowledgeable or experienced, now there isn't and that's the result.
It is a productivity tool, and it's being used as one, by both people that know how and people who don't.
bingo. and unfortunately the lazy and inexperienced are using it more than others, or using it at a much higher degree. Linus even says it himself. they file a report and then "vanish" because they can't answer follow up questions or clarifications because they don't know how. if you deal with LLMs and the people that use them as much as I do for my job you see this constantly. daily even. they "build" something and when it's reviewed and questioned the answers are just no where to be found because the "coder" can't answer them.
Like the other day there's this guy on Youtube who is a huge advocate for Omarchy for whatever reason. older guy but he's always going on about how great Omarchy is. he posts a video about how "we" built some application for Omarchy but the entire video is him putting prompts into Claude Code and then walking away. never touches it, never writes a line of code. but there were glaring bugs with the build so I reached out to him, asked him how he was going to address these things and hoping he wouldn't put this app out there because it's clearly broken. works on a surface level but it WILL break. he essentially told me to "fuck off".
you're right an LLM is a tool but one that should be in the hands of those that know what they're doing. you wouldn't hand a hammer to a child and tell them to build a house. you wouldn't hand a gun to a junkie and tell them they're now a cop. I wouldn't hand Vim to my mother and tell her to build a website. I feel LLMs should require human training just like any other tools we use. If you want to allow LLMs into your open source project, sure, have at it but it should be YOUR responsibility to vet and interview each individual that wishes to contribute utilizing said tools.