This is gonna sound old man and “back in my day” but I genuinely long for the days of brevity. I remember not that long ago when you’d read a post, doc, or pull request and it would be like a few sentences or paragraphs, and that would be that. You’d read it, understand it, talk to the person about it, and refine it, but it wouldn’t be a 30,000 word diatribe.

But there is an obvious and clear pattern now where folks are using LLMs to write basically everything, and all those artifacts are at least 10x longer than they need to be. Nobody needs 5 pages of context on a single todo. Nobody needs a pull request description that describes everything the code already says.

On the surface it looks impressive the first 10 times you’ve seen it, but after that you know you’re not going to read any of it ever again. You might end up feeding it through an LLM to summarize the unreadably long post, and now you’re just in an LLM-driven endless flat circle.

Writing with brevity and clarity is an art, and I genuinely applaud everyone who does it well, regularly, and without an LLM. Truly, thank you.