Before trying to assess the impact of removing LLMs from my workstation, let me list the changes in my experience that coincide with their exit:
- Slower pace: the next thing happening waits for me to make it happen.
- Single threading: multiple concurrent threads are not supported by my mind.
- Steady load: no more micro vacations waiting for the LLM to respond.
- “How do I x?” has replaced “Go do x.” Commands are now back to questions.
- Feeling of return. This is how work has always been. Familiarity.
- Feeling of exit. I am no longer visiting a foreign place.
- Impulse to measure. How much time, how many words, how much progress?
- Avoidance of the technical core.
Post-LLM recovery
My FT8 code is in a state where the LLM made changes I don’t understand. It works better now than it did when I wrote every line. I need to decide how to proceed.
Do I: A. revert to the last commit I made solo to start fresh B. study the changes until I understand them C. abandon FT8, move on to other work D. something else.
I’m leaning toward B.