LLMs and the Russellian Inversion
2025-08-23
Bertrand Russell, the 20th century philosohper and mathematician, once said:
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
LLMs are introducing something like this dynamic into programming. The programming version of the statement is:
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the less experienced programmers are writing much more code than the more experienced ones.…