alt Hacker NewsDays ago he said…
“I'm finding that coding agents can take me from a vague idea to a working solution, one with tests and documentation and that looks like a carefully considered project evolved over the course of many weeks... in less than an hour.
Even if the code is rock solid, there's a limit to how many projects like that I can sensibly care for - and if they're instantly abandoned, what value was there from creating them in the first place?”
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/31/the-solution-might-be-...
Here is Simon questioning a fundamental belief held by the pro-LLM lobby. Would a paid shill question that?
Simon is, without question, an enthusiastic pro-LLM person. I disagree with what he says often, the product market fit post was a bad take. But I don’t believe he is shying away from sharing his thoughts when they’re not favorable to the industry.
That's not at all negative about LLMs, just negative about his own usage of LLMs. He's still very heavily and unrealistically (unless he has very poor coding standards and skills, which I won't rule out) praising LLMs in the sentences you've quoted.
Note that it's not surprising that he finds his own usage negative, since his real job is as a blogger, not a software engineer.