The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool (opens in new tab)

.post .post-content { margin-top: 0px; } LLMs are exhausting because they require spending precious social energy to operate them. Energy that might be better spent on people. When you use a good tool, your brain pretends that the tool is a part of your body: when you drive a car, when you type on a keyboard or when you hit that key chord to do that thing in Vim or VSCode. In contrast, when you talk to somebody, you are participating in a social ritual: share a fire, tell a story, help me clo...