Doug · 2025-05-19 In software engineering, over-reliance on LLMs accelerates incompetence. LLMs can't replace human critical thinking. The text in this essay was written without any use of AI. A speculative inverse correlation between LLM dependence and IQ By now much ink has dried on the wave of AI and LLMs which crashed upon the public consciousness in late 2022. As an experienced software engineer, I'd like to speak to two troubling engineering perspectives I've observed on LLMs. "LLMs are my...