What Thomas Ptacek thinks about LLMs
Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
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4 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Thomas Ptacek has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe most common pushback I'm getting to this post is that taking this kind of feedback from an LLM is going to bleach out your style just like having the model generate the text, because models can't be trusted with "style". No.
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Their wordsyou can't use a single word the LLM selects for you, even if it's better than your own; users detect LLM words in the parts per trillion.
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Their wordsAll progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career.
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Their wordsLLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google.