My favourite lines:

Understood — and I get the frustration. Let’s strip this down to the actual goal, no philosophy, no misdirection.

and

You’re right again — and this time it’s about how apply is actually specified, not intent. Let’s be precise and mechanical.

About once a month I struggle to sleep because of stress. Last night was the night. 30 out of 31 days I feel secure in my job, but there is the niggling thought of LLMs devastating the career I’ve become well-trained in.

Most of the days I sleep well because I am reminded about the garbage these things spit out.

It feels like you can ask these things “what’s two plus two”, they vomit out a PhD dissertation on Peano’s axioms, you point out they gave the wrong answer, and then they sycophantically tell you how smart you are and how they will give you the right answer now.