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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Dumb people use their tools incorrectly. That’s all you’re describing.
I gave one example. In fact that’s one of the least bad examples. If that was the only problem with LLMs it wouldn’t really be that bad. But the actual reality is so much worse. But I was arguing to the point that the person I replied to made, which was about development. The problems I have with AI are not fixable without literally every government on earth taking a stand, which just will not happen.
Using LLMs for development is fantastic as long as you know how to use it, which is how it is for every tool.
The difference with LLMs and other tools is that anyone can use them easily and get incredible results…..as long as you don’t look under the covers. The developers that use them well are getting results and code that are indistinguishable from code they’d write themselves.