Whoever upvoted this needs to read some books.
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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What are these books you speak of? Do they have special features?
Since "some books" did not specify, presumably any books are okay.
Perhaps starting with The Pet Goat.
Apparently it works upside down too. ;)
[Extra points for any who get the reference.]
ouch
I like the last pic where wil smith slapped himself.
Yes. Also, my llms can do it too
Yes.
The code I wrote before LLMs was maintainable, because it was concise clean code.
The code I've let LLMS write for me, unless I spend 30x as long telling it to do it right, is a verbose unreadable noisy spray.
Waiting for Amazon to release an ad like the one Spooner describes to that CEO when he's being sarcastic. .
"a carpenter, making a beautiful chair. And then one of your robots comes in and makes a better chair twice as fast. And then you superimpose on the screen, 'USR: Shittin' on the Little Guy'"
Evasive deflection.