The majority of people are resistant to change in general and can’t imagine a better world than what they know. The majority of people are focused on themselves without looking at the big picture.

Yeah I had one trying to start an initiative to add them and when I asked how they know if they’re doing anything he was completely at a loss for words. It is just cargo cult mentality.

It’s literally researchers doing research which the blog links to. Most of the AI booster stuff is completely unsubstantiated, and it turns out when you measure things they are often full of shit.

They found it mostly just increases token spend.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/27/your-agents-md-file-doesnt-actually-do-anything/

Not speaking up when projects look like they could be about to make a mistep would just result in them not knowing that/how much people care? Why should people be silent if there is a chance to divert mistakes?

Did you stop reading there? Here is your quote + the next paragraph

So yeah, bad stuff. I completely understand why a lot of people have problems with LLMs. I have these concerns as well.

I also understand why a lot of experts in their field really like LLMs. These are very powerful and sophisticated tools. Capable people with decades of experience can successfully automate away a lot of tedious work, and still end up with a final product identical to what they would have done by hand.

I don’t think that conclusion is even accurate and it’s certainly the subject of much debate. He then crunches all of both negative and positive into a 5 bullet list that makes it look much more balanced:

• Very powerful
• Genuinely useful for various things
• Dangerous, de-skilling, and/or addictive in the wrong hands
• Full of really bad externalities
• Broadly available worldwide at effectively zero cost

You’re apparently reading it differently but it looks to me like half the article is trying to funnel into justifying making this a difficult decision after making the case for it really not to be up front. Why do that?

He can give 13 clearly articulated and factual reasons not to use LLMs and 1 nebulous opinion-based reason to use them yet gives them equal weight on the scale 🤔

One would think the following would be reason for a project such as KDE to ban them outright at least until the dust settles.

The license of source code they produce is legally unclear.

there are models trained on only licensed data, and it’s possible to train and run models locally for the specific tasks that it is good for

No one is doing this for programming. People love to make this argument then then turn around and use claude or something

The deal with AI criti-hype is that the back of the card so-to-speak is praise, right?

“The AI broke out and did some hacking (because it’s so powerful)” etc

KDE just works. The few things I want to change I can. GNOME by default is further away from what I want and you have to get extensions that break with updates to change anything.

Not really. Might have to update the keychain first or update the package mirrors of it’s a very long time but it’s not a huge deal

Arch is the most stable Linux I’ve used. The only problem I’ve ever had is not using one for long enough that the keyring and mirrors were stale, and that wasn’t difficult to fix.

You can write a whole essay of theory, but my experience is running several arch devices for years and years with no problems and having ubuntu distro upgrades break so badly I just reinstall completely every single time.

Another hiccup is that LTS are not actually running stable packages. They are running Frankenstein versions of packages with backports that are not supported by the project maintainers, because the software has to be maintained for security if nothing else.

That is true. The fact you have to even do that is a lot for some people though. There are other things as well such as wifi calling and visual voicemail not working out of the box for all carriers.

GrapheneOS for example also is fully there already

There are some caveats to that. You do have to jump through some hoops to for instance get RCS working. I think it is worth it to feel like I’m actually in control of my device, and I would even recommend it to friends and family that I’m willing to play tech support for, but I can’t truthfully say I would recommend it to an arbitrary non technical person

I use arch because it is the boring but stable system. Rolling release means you just keep updating it and it works forever rather than having to do big bang upgrades between LTS versions that always break something

is a psycho. We have security cameras in the kitchen

I’m pretty sure a landlord can not do that legally most places

You might look at “clip on” earbuds. It’s a new form factor in the past few years that doesn’t have a part that goes in the canal

It’s the elf transformation