Critics Are Right, I Still Use LLMs
JeremyTheo · hn · 2026-07-16
The author acknowledges that many criticisms of LLMs are valid: they make mistakes, foster over-reliance, and cannot replace genuine understanding and judgment. Yet, he still uses LLMs at work because they significantly boost efficiency in writing, retrieval, summarization, and drafting. The core argument is not a binary "LLMs good or bad," but how to use them as useful but unreliable tools while acknowledging their limitations.
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