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That AI Temptation

Tim Bray · 19 Oct 2026

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  1. For me (and I’m not alone), the biggest issue isn’t what GenAI can and can’t do, it’s the ethical and economic discomforts.
  2. This technology is being peddled by terrible people who are rich and whose goal is to get richer. It’s bought and deployed by terrible people who want to slash their payrolls by throwing thought workers onto the street.
  3. Code, in the LLM-pre-bubble-pop era, is cheap. Time is still expensive.
  4. But I bet that it’d burn a whole lot of tokens, which means routing money to bad people with bad goals. So once again, I’m not going to do it with LLMs.

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