alt.hn

2/16/2026 at 1:57:41 PM

I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform

https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/

by speckx

2/16/2026 at 9:36:49 PM

Well written. My whole life I've always insisted that everything I make, everything with my name on it have my marks on it. My decisions, my idiosyncrasies, my preferences. Whatever it was, essays, presentations, code, drawings. LLMs break that, I can't enforce those marks without breaking their core value proposition.

Those marks do essentially what they claimed to. They prove I did the work. When I use LLM I didn't.

I also don't know how to tread the line between letting an llm do most of the work and still understanding the code base. And it's still an open question whether I will even need to understand it in the future. But if I don't then what is the point of my existence?

by Bolwin