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title: "Reply to: I don't like LLMs"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2026/09/reply-to-i-dont-like-llms/
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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Martin Fowler:

> One of my most successful life-hacks is to avoid people I don't like or don't
> trust. I decline to interact with them socially, and make a deliberate effort
> to avoid working with them too, even if they are doing much that is
> beneficial. I feel that hanging out with pleasant, capable people, the people
> with integrity, has made my life a far better one. Hence my visceral dislike
> of interacting with an LLM that's not just making a pretense of being human,
> but also posing as the kind of human I walk away from.

Words of wisdom.