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Tom Renner
Personal blog · tomrenner.com · on HN as SwoopsFromAboveprogrammingaicareer
Tom Renner writes My place to put things, a personal blog at tomrenner.com about programming, ai and career. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “LLM Inevitabilism”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link Tom Renner's AI writing, especially 'llm-inevitabilism', which questions whether LLMs are inevitable, and call it a great article. Other comments cite his AI posts as support.
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My place to put things
Most-linked posts?
- LLM Inevitabilism5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2025-07-15
What Hacker News says?
>Learning something online 5 years ago often involved trawling incorrect, outdated or hostile content and attempting to piece together mental models without the chance to receive immediate feedback on intuition or ask follow up questions. This is leaps and bounds ahead of that experience. Researching online properly requires cross referencing, seeing different approaches, and understanding various strenghts, weaknes…
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on “Study mode”Submitted LLM Inevitabilism as a story · 1773 points
HN discussionNobody knows if it's "here to stay". https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ Some of us are still consciously choosing a life with as little slop as possible.
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on “I Am An AI Hater”Submitted Cull your dependencies as a story · 143 points
HN discussionWhat I found insightful about this article was the framing of another article cited. > " This pretty negative post topping Hacker News last month sparked these questions, and I decided to find some answers, of course, using AI" The pretty negative post cited is https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ . I went ahead to read it, and found it, imo, fair. It's not making any direct pretty negative claims about AI…
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on “When did AI take over Hacker News?”Submitted Does the software industry learn? as a story · 69 points
HN discussionThere is also a great article about the same subject from Tom Renner: https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ Sam, Elon, Zuck are conmen, husks of people, empty inside and not knowing what to do with themselves but hoard money. In their pointless quest to become the proverbial dragon on a mountain of gold, they are trying to control, bully and manipulate the world to their vision of how it should be. We know…
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on “Why Tech Inevitability is Self-Defeating”Submitted LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick as a story · 11 points
HN discussionGitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: "Embrace AI or get out." (then proceeds to get out himself, 7 days later) https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrac... https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas... This industry is full of snake oil salesmen and false promises, it's reliant on hype and an army of fanboys trained on twitter to fan the flames and create the impressi…
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on “Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)”Submitted Does my toaster love me? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is a great article by Tom Renner about the "inevitability" of LLMs. https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ Of course, when phrased with adversarial language, these self-proclaimed gurus and "leaders" are basically saying: "We know everything and you know not too much, get on board or get behind", to boost their sales. Many times these futures didn't work out: - Elon's self driving cars - Elon's Boring…
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on “GitHub CEO Warns Developers: "Either Embrace AI or Get Out of This Career"”Submitted Optimising for Trust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dora? I barely know her Coming to grips with DevOps metrics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saying the quiet part out loud as a story · 1 points
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