--- title: I'm not consulting an LLM | daily.dev description: A personal essay arguing against relying on LLMs for information and intellectual work. Using the analogy of Google's 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button, the author... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-not-consulting-an-llm-cmneq9bwu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I'm not consulting an LLM | daily.dev og:description: A personal essay arguing against relying on LLMs for information and intellectual work. Using the analogy of Google's 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button, the author... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-not-consulting-an-llm-cmneq9bwu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cMneQ9bwU.png og:image:alt: I'm not consulting an LLM og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I'm not consulting an LLM **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal essay arguing against relying on LLMs for information and intellectual work. Using the analogy of Google's 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button, the author contends that even a perfectly accurate LLM would be intellectually corrosive because it optimizes for arriving at answers rather than developing the cognitive experience of searching, encountering contradictions, and building mental models. The author further argues that LLMs fall short even of that hypothetical ideal, referencing Gell-Mann Amnesia to explain why people overestimate LLM quality in domains they don't deeply understand. The core claim: a tool that lies plausibly enough is more dangerous than one that lies obviously, because it erodes the epistemic instincts needed to detect when something is wrong. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Stop Telling Me To Ask An LLM](https://daily.dev/posts/stop-telling-me-to-ask-an-llm-ytmk76prv) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.](https://daily.dev/posts/the-llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway--02xhbt7xl) · Hacker News · 4 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-not-consulting-an-llm-cmneq9bwu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"I'm not consulting an LLM","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-not-consulting-an-llm-cmneq9bwu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-not-consulting-an-llm-cmneq9bwu"},"datePublished":"2026-03-07T08:36:37.465Z","dateModified":"2026-03-07T08:36:57.508Z","description":"A personal essay arguing against relying on LLMs for information and intellectual work. 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