Veteran ML developer stops using LLMs in professional work
What happened
A developer with about ten years of production machine learning experience said on Hacker News on November 8 that he will no longer use any LLM or AI agent in his professional work. His reasons include research on cognitive effects such as "LLM brain fog," and doubts about the quality and maintainability of code generated by Claude, which looks complete but is hard to maintain. He also cites data center energy use and political and compliance concerns around GDPR and the CLOUD Act. He does concede AI tools still help when he is stuck on a coding problem.
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- Hacker News front pageI will not be using LLMs in my coding
一位有约十年生产级机器学习经验的开发者宣布，将不再在专业工作中使用任何 LLM 或 AI 智能体。他列举的理由包括“LLM 脑雾”等认知影响研究、Claude 生成代码看似完备实则质量堪忧且难以维护，以及数据中心能耗与 GDPR、CLOUD Act 等政治与合规顾虑。他同时承认 AI 工具在卡壳时仍有正面作用。
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