{"id":2322,"date":"2026-04-14T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:25:12","slug":"bryan-cantrill-the-peril-of-laziness-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2026\/04\/14\/bryan-cantrill-the-peril-of-laziness-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Cantrill: The peril of laziness lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bryan Cantrill \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/bcantrill.dtrace.org\/2026\/04\/12\/the-peril-of-laziness-lost\/\">The peril of laziness lost<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cLLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone\u2019s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unchecked, LLMs will make systems larger, not better\u2009[\u2026]. As such, LLMs highlight how essential our human laziness is: our finite time forces us to develop crisp abstractions in part because we don\u2019t want to waste our (human!) time on the consequences of clunky ones. The best engineering is always borne of constraints, and the constraint of our time places limits on the cognitive load of the system that we\u2019re willing to accept.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Cantrill \u2013 The peril of laziness lost: \u201cLLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone\u2019s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unchecked, LLMs will make systems larger, not better\u2009[\u2026]. As such, LLMs highlight how essential our human laziness is: our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog","tag-links"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@tistre\/116401865549664081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}