alt Hacker NewsOver reliance on LLMs is going to become such a disaster in a way no one would have thought possible. Not sure exactly what, who, when, or where.. Just that having your entire product or repo dependent on a single entity is going to lead to some bad times…
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For a second I hoped you were gonna comment on how LLMs are going to rot out our skillset and our brains. Like some people already complaining they "have to think" when ChatGPT or Claude or Grok is down.
Oh well.
There's so many different models, from hosted to local and there's almost no switching cost as most of them are even api compatible or supported by one of the gateways (Bifrost, LiteLLM,...).
There's many things to worry about but which LLM provider you choose doesn't really lock you in right now.
I don't get this pov, maybe b/c I'm not a heavy Claude Code user, just a dabbler. Any LLM tool that can selectively use part of a code base as part of the input prompt will be useful as an augmentation tool.
Note the word "any." Like cloud services there will be unique aspects of a tool, but just like cloud svc there is a shared basic value proposition allows for migration from one to another and competition among them. If Gemini or OpenAI or Ollama running locally becomes a better choice, I'll switch without a care.
Subscription sprawl is likely the more pressing issue (just remembered I should stop my GH CoPilot subscription since switching to Claude).
It should be abundantly clear that depending on a single entity will screw you royally, but obviously we don't learn from the mistakes of others. We are condemned to repeat history because we don't know it.
How can automatic slop-prevention be a disaster? It's a feature.
if you rely on the black box of bullshit... you deserve your own fate.
> on a single entity
Contrary to the popular opinion here, there are other services beyond Claude Code. These usage limits might even prompt (har har) people to notice that Gemini is cheaper and often better.