I'm usually not against "tools" but I have a hard time finding something useful with LLMs.

The only good usage of LLMs is to optimize algorithms in complex code. Something like "move this variable and your application will be 100x faster." But even for that case, we could have alternatives that do not involve LLMs.

That's it, everything else is bad and useless:

• mega companies profiting from piracy without being sued
• AI companies who publicly declare that they want us to give up our brains and become slaves
• layoffs (it's never officially because of AI, but it's always a manager thinking that he can fire people or not hire new guys because Cursor is good enough for the peasants)
• employees have way more work without being compensated
• making people stupid
• making students more lazy than they are, and allowing them to cheat (cheating required some dedication, not it's free for all)
• artists in all fields are being fucked and may not live from their art
• replacing customer service with chatbots that prevent people from getting answers
• bots everywhere
• spamming forums (look at what happens right now on Lemmy)
• DDoS and attacks on web sites
• enabling script kiddies to shit on the internet
• hallucination and lies
• actually, LLM are 100% hallucinating all the time, the fact that they are coherent is a statistical side-effect
• data centers, pollution, pissing people off when they live around one data center
• generated images, it's really creepy for some reason (even for a simple restaurant menu)

The examples I gave are real and I have experienced them first hand, it's not an anti-AI crusade. For the first time in my life, I don't see how a technology can be useful.

I don't hate it but I also refuse to use it. I'm dumb enough without surrendering my thinking to a klanker.

There is also the environmental cost and enshittification of neighbourhoods.

I've unsubscribed from several youtubers who use it.

RSS is probably my favourite way to consume information so when I find out a feed uses AI to write or research I delete them pretty quickly.

Edit: corrected two early morning mistakes.

I have a pretty dim view of LLMs.

1. Simply using an AI that's run on a corporate data centers encourages the construction of yet more data centers, with all of the environmental/climate negatives they bring, as well as local harms they induce on the people living near them, such as increased electricity rates.

2. Using corporate AI directly helps the financial situations of those giant corporations (by boosting usage/user numbers, they are able to attract more investment capital), most of which are ran by right-wing CEO's who are more than willing to collaborate with and fund fascist governments to ensure that they are not regulated in search of both maximum profits. Some of these companies, such as Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, genuinely appear to be seeking to use these tools for what would previously be considered crackpot conspiracy theory levels of public control and surveillance.

3. I'm wary of the potential effects of AI usage resulting in declining or stagnating critical thinking based on some preliminary studies (example 1, example 2).

4. I do not think LLM's can be "just a tool" as many claim.

5. 99% of LLM's (the ones virtually everyone use) are trained on copyrighted code that is incompatible with GPL licensed projects. LLM's have a 3 to 10% chance to unknowingly reproduce the copyrighted code perfectly, introducing legal plagiarism into an open-source project, which could easily open up the developers to being sued in the future if companies scanned open source repos for copyright violations.

6. Many courts are ruling that LLM generated code cannot be copyrighted at all, meaning that it also cannot be legally made GPL, losing the protections from corporate exploration the GPL normally grants. https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.html

I use it for coding, for translation and for some irl chore / bureaucracy. It's very useful to me, though not without flaws and dealing with some of its stupidity. I am now finally in a position where if I can't find a good existing program that solves my problem - I can whip up exactly what I want in a week (as opposed to a 6 month endeavour)

I don't use image/video/audio generation

Shit peaked before 9/11 when SmarterChild dropped on AIM

Mixed feelings. I’m kind of an AI pilled doomer.

I see that AI can be a productivity boost - if used correctly in the right places. But I’m also increasingly worried that it might one day replace any work that’s done on a computer (which is most white collar work).

I’m doing a lot of data processing work. I’ve been able to see AI do all this in one go:

• Read a vague Jira task item about some data error.
• Diagnose on real data what the underlying problem might be.
• Find the line of code that need to be changed.
• Rerun the data pipeline with the new line of code.
• Verify on new data that the error has been fixed.
• Submit a pull request describing the change with a detailed report on impact analysis.

Is it perfect? No, it’s often making mistakes and digs deep into the wrong rabbit holes. But is it crazy that it has managed to do all of this once? Yes it is. This was unimaginable just a few years ago.

If this level of automation going to continue in this pace, what’s left for us humans?

As long as I can still detect it I block those who use it.

I think there is a way that we could implement genAI that is good and reasonable and useful -- training only on the creative commons, digitalizing existing public domain books and releasing them for general consumption, carefully building harnesses and testing for safety before release, building data centers in unused areas with green energy. We, however, have decided to deploy it in the most harmful way possible instead because a few tech ceos looked at the output and immediately went insane and decided they should build god.

GenAI is a technology. You shouldn't make a religion from it.

As with all technologies, it has it's strengths and weaknesses, and it has it's good and bad uses, and so on.

Currently, many people do not take proper care of it's failures.