I'm tired of this shit

I'm tired of a lot of things, of some people, of politics, but what's currently grinding my gears the most are LLMs. No! Don't click away, I'm not about try to convince you that LLMs are bad, I'm tired of that too. What I hope to convey is how tired I am of discovering new software projects.

Back in the days of old, before this LLM shit took off, discovering a new project was pleasant. Someone would post a new Emacs package, or a new Haskell project on Reddit or Discourse, I'd click the link and then scroll pleasantly through the code. I would spend a couple of minutes reading code and enjoying myself. I'd peruse the repository, both learning and also trying to guess the skill level of the developer behind it. At the end of my reading session, I'd then decide if I wanted to use the project or not. Things were simple back then.

But then LLMs came along and people got upset - in my opinion for good reason - and so they starting hating on anyone and anything even remotely touched by an LLM. The natural and expected response to that is LLM proponents hiding the fact that they use LLMs. In effect, lying to me.

These days, discovering a new project is a chore, because first things first, I have to answer the unpleasant question:

Is this person trying to lie to me?

I don't enjoy second-guessing everything, I want to write software, share it freely with others and play with computers. Not be a human LLM detector.

Please stop hiding that you're using LLMs, I think most people are tired enough where they won't lynch you for using an LLM. Honestly disclosing LLM use allows me to skip your project, or look at it later when I have the mental capacity to look for extremely subtle bugs that you didn't catch.

Side note, I personally think that when you post a project on Reddit/Discourse the post itself should declare that you used an LLM. We all know that LLMs are a touchy subject and as such I find it disrespectful when you don't do that. Knowing in advance what to expect lowers my disappointment and as said before, allows me to focus my energy on actually reading the code and not trying to detect LLM use.