Stop generating, start thinking - localghost

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A few thoughts on coding in the year of our LLM, 2026.

I’ve been thinking about LLMs a lot lately. Haven’t we all. Here’s my reading from the last few years: (skip) 2016 (easter egg!) Google says machine learning is the future. So I tried it myself 2023 Bite-size thoughts about AI Bing chat is the AI fire alarm Unpacking AI: “an exponential disruption” with Kate Crawford: podcast and transcript Losing the imitation game The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con Language Is a Poor H

Personal website of Lara Aigmüller. Thoughts about web frontend development, music, and more…

I've written the word "Discord" way too many times in the past 7 days, but the weather was nice and I finished a book, so I've got that going for me.

I need to commit my code more often One thing I realized this week is that I need to commit my work to Git more often. I am not sure if it was my year hiatus or just not thinking about it and being intentional, but I have gotten in the habit of not committing […]

Web related links worth saving

A collection of links to interesting things I've come across.

Weekly Browsing - Mitchell Hashimoto’s adoption journey, Anthropic (C compiler, coding skills, hive mind), Claude in Microsoft, agent skills, Elixir for AI; market jitters (shipping/freight).

Jeremy's personal website

Design, branding, AI, and motion links covering concept art, mental health UX, design system enforcement, agentic AI patterns, and creative coding experiments.Design, AI, branding, and motion links exploring problem ownership, purpose displacement, domain expertise, and why your brain hates redesigns.

Personal website of Abhinav Sarkar

Links to the best stuff I've read or watched during the month of February, 2026

Arcane curation from the IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity realms

Bookmarked "Stop generating, start thinking" https://localghost.dev/blog/stop-generating-start-thinking/ "Where I've seen LLMs do the most damage is where engineers outsource the thinking that should go into software development. LLMs can't reason about what the system architecture because they cannot reason. They do not think. So if we're not thinking and they're not thinking that means nobody is thinking. Nothing good can come from software nobody has thought about."

Keyboard shortcuts occupy a strange area for web design.

What I've been up to since January.