A few assorted thoughts about LLMs in November 2026

LLMs are useful tools. They're also the products of the greatest theft of intellectual labor in human history. Both of these things can be true at the same time.In the right hands, LLMs can produce good, reliable software in shorter timeframes than ever before. Most hands are not the right hands. Most organizations using LLMs to write code are producing slop, no matter what they tell you in their press releases.If you've never built serious software using an LLM, I urge you to make an honest attempt before you complain about them. You might be surprised.If you're not using LLMs for code reviews—especially when it comes to security—you're not doing your job right.LLMs over-engineer everything. Constantly pushing back against their eagerness to write code is exhausting and frustrating.Software built entirely or partially using LLM assistance is fine, actually.If an LLM-generated codebase has a security breach, the fault lies completely and fully with the human who generated and shipped…

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