I don’t care how well your “AI” works
I don’t care how well your “AI” works November 25, 2025 The other day I was sitting on the doorstep of a hackerspace, eating a falafel sandwich while listening to the conversation inside. The topic shifted to the use of “AI” for everyday tasks, people casually started elaborating on how they use “chat assistants” to let them write pieces of code or annoying emails. The situation is a blueprint for many conversations I had in recent months. What followed in most of them, almost like a reflex, was a self-justification of why the way they use these tools is fine, while other approaches were reckless. I find it particularly disillusioning to realize how deep the LLM brainworm is able to eat itself even into progressive hacker circles. the grind I encountered friends who got fully…
