Kyle Kingsbury says LLM use erodes trust in software documentation and projects
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Kyle Kingsbury, who runs the Jepsen database testing project, says LLM use erodes trust in documentation, software, and the organizations that produce them.
He also says engineers may begin to treat new software projects with suspicion because maturity signals are now easier to counterfeit. Simon Willison reports the remarks, which appear in Jepsen's results for ParticleDB 1.1.4.
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AIKyle Kingsbury says LLM use erodes trust in documentation, software, and the organizations that produce them. He adds that engineers may begin to treat new software projects with suspicion because maturity signals are now easier to counterfeit. The remarks appear in his Jepsen results for ParticleDB 1.1.4.
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