The author takes some shots at particular people in this article which I could do without. It’s not that I dislike those shots necessarily, but just that it seems unnecessary to the interesting bit of the article.
This bit, is the resonant bit to me:
The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unchecked, LLMs will make systems larger, not better — appealing to perverse vanity metrics, perhaps, but at the cost of everything that matters. As such, LLMs highlight how essential our human laziness is: our finite time forces us to develop crisp abstractions in part because we don’t want to waste our (human!) time on the consequences of clunky ones.
As human beings spending our time creating things, we need to spend that time thoughtfully. Or we can feel a need or desire to do so at least. It is worth it to go a little slower now so you can go faster later.