--- title: The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway. | daily.dev description: A developer reflects on the cognitive dissonance of agreeing with most LLM criticisms — environmental cost, copyright issues, slop generation, harm to junior... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway--02xhbt7xl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway. | daily.dev og:description: A developer reflects on the cognitive dissonance of agreeing with most LLM criticisms — environmental cost, copyright issues, slop generation, harm to junior... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway--02xhbt7xl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/02XHbt7xL.png og:image:alt: The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway. 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. # The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway. **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 19 min read · 4 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A developer reflects on the cognitive dissonance of agreeing with most LLM criticisms — environmental cost, copyright issues, slop generation, harm to junior developers, geopolitical risk — while still spending ~$10k/month on tokens. The post explores how LLMs can amplify existing human thinking rather than replace it, and shares concrete patterns: the 'grill-me' technique for forcing structured thinking, writing tight three-sentence problem statements before coding, using subagents to adversarially critique work, and leveraging hallucination as a UX design signal. The key thesis is that LLMs amplify what you already have — good thinking becomes sharper, but empty thinking produces fluent slop — and that trust and credibility remain the only reliable signals of quality in an LLM-saturated world. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@kartiknvj** · 0 upvotes > The point about using subagents to adversarially critique work maps closely to how I run LLM-as-judge in my own pipelines, since a second model grading against an explicit rubric catches far more than a single pass ever does. I have also started treating hallucination as a signal rather than pure noise, usually it means my context was underspecified. Do you find the 'grill-me' technique holds up on longer multi-step agent tasks, or does the critique drift once the context window fills? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Why talking to LLMs has improved my thinking – Vallified](https://daily.dev/posts/why-talking-to-llms-has-improved-my-thinking-vallified-nagkqxprh) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [The analogue programmer in the land of LLMs](https://daily.dev/posts/the-analogue-programmer-in-the-land-of-llms-fupyefolu) · Ruby Flow · 2 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code), [#ai-assisted-development](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-assisted-development) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway--02xhbt7xl) ```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":"The LLM Critics Are Right. 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