---
title: "Gaslight-driven development"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/gaslight-driven-development-euzdhccqh
source_url: https://tonsky.me/blog/gaslight-driven-development/
type: article
source: "tonsky.me"
published: 2025-07-16T15:58:54.406Z
updated: 2025-07-16T15:59:23.715Z
tags: ["ai", "architecture", "llm"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 58
comments: 10
language: en
---

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# Gaslight-driven development

**[tonsky.me](https://daily.dev/sources/tonsky)** · 2 min read · 58 upvotes · 10 comments

## Summary

Large Language Models are increasingly influencing API design decisions by consistently suggesting certain patterns and method names, forcing developers to adapt their APIs to match AI expectations. Companies like Soundslice and Instant have added features or modified their APIs because LLMs kept referencing non-existent functionality or preferred alternative naming conventions. While this creates a feedback loop where AI shapes the tools it uses, it may also push developers toward more conventional, predictable API designs rather than innovative approaches.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://tonsky.me/blog/gaslight-driven-development/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@vladislav65** · 4 upvotes

> Your website made me blind 💀

**@prasoon81** · 3 upvotes

> Insightful!!

**@jido** · 1 upvotes

> Sounds good actually. I would like a simple AI that helps design my APIs, I am sure a 14B model is not required for naming things?

**@rengas** · 0 upvotes

> You are absolutely right! lolzz

**@jelenastricak** · 0 upvotes

> Just got blind, thx

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Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm)

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