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 date: 2025-01-28
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+description: "In the height of LLM's"
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+[The blog post that got me to put my words down](https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2026/06/01/quality-in-the-age-of-slop/).
+
+[Last year](../25-01-28-ai-hestiation-turning-around) I decided to give AI a shot. Previous to that, I had dabbled with the chat interfaces of Claude and ChatGPT, but
+had resisted really diving in.
+
+Just so no one doubts my 'allegiance', or to brand myself into the camp of water-boilers, over that time span I have:
+
+- Fully vibe-coded a web-rtc baby monitor (flutter app and Go backend)
+  - I've vibe-coded or AI assisted many other projects, but that was the most substantial project that works.
+- Paid for various subscription services (Claude) for said vibe coding
+- Used tons of chatting with AI to plan projects, make recipes, research things on my mind
+- At work, used Opencode to complete many of my work tickets, typically iterating in Plan mode, then executing said plan
+  - No Pr's were ever merged without some minor intervention as far as I recall, there was always a little something here or there that needed tweaking, but it definitely felt very productive.
+- See-saw'd every week between "this is awesome" and "I'm pretty sure I'm getting dumber and need to stop"
+
+I feel I have fully submerged myself in the slop swamp. What have I learned?
+
+## LLM's are Excellent
+
+Large Language Models are really cool piece of technology. I hope one day there is a fairly and freely (as in libre)
+trained model to replace search. It is so nice to "describe" what you are searching when you only have the vagaries in
+your mind. Turning English text prompts into random statistical output is a wildly cool idea.
+
+_Unfortunately_
+
+It is so very problematic.
+
+## LLM's are Evil
+
+I think my experiment with going all-in with LLM's has taught me just how insidious this technology can be. I believe it
+has [wreaked havoc in many peoples' lives (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots). I feel
+that the price a software engineer pays to have a prediction engine produce the code for them is steep. It erodes
+personal expertise, cheapens the craft and love of the craft, sucks the enjoyment out of work, and steals the ability to make any large maintenance decisions with confidence.
+
+I feel that my original aversion to these programs was right. The technology inserts itself (by default) in the loop, creating
+dependence. 
+
+LLM's do not produce Quality, they cannot. So, I think I am done with AI code assistance. Rubber ducking and search still
+seem very helpful to me, so I'm going to try and move to self-hosted models for those use-cases.
+
+I want to continue to improve my craft. I want to love this craft. It's why I started down this road nearly ten years
+ago in college.