What Gergely Orosz thinks about LLMs
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.
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11 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Gergely Orosz has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordseven “artificial intelligence” was a stretch given LLMs are probability distributions and do not meet our common understanding of “intelligence.”
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Their wordsHallucination is a feature not a bug; generating the next token and the next also.
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Our readingModern software engineering is no longer done without LLMs and will no longer be done without them.
Their wordsLike it or not, modern sw engineering is no longer done without LLMs (AI) and will no longer be done without.
- 6 days earlier
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Our readingMachines are not conscious
Their wordsAn LLM is as conscious as my screwdriver, lawn mower or smartphone is - all tools we build to do X or Y.
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Their wordsLLM bots are talking in my replies, this site is having a real problem blocking these accounts.
- 13 days earlier
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Their wordshaving the very best AI model and harness doesn’t result in better/faster execution - in fact it slows you
- 9 days earlier
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Their wordsTo answer the question posed in the header of this report, it’s apparent that using open models is indeed the approach offering the biggest savings, followed by smart model routing. Spending controls and context optimization also bear down on costs, but they don’t come close to the first two techniques in results.
↗The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI modelsblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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Their wordsthe largest tech companies (at the top 1%) aren't using fewer tokens, they're just being cost conscious and moving to cheaper, still very capable open models running vs SOTA model usage
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Their wordsthe existing ones were more than good enough, and I'm learning how much to trust those existing ones... and already they do more than I can utilize them (for writing code)
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Their wordsThis is, by the way, also why the category of “an AI trained on person X” is absolutely BS. People change their minds in light of new information, the “AI trained on X’s writing/videos/tweets” does not
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordsWriting is thinking, and we are interested in your own thoughts and observations, not a sharp, one-sentence observation turned into three paragraphs of blob text by an LLM.
↗How software engineering is changing: an essay challengeblog.pragmaticengineer.com