The REPL: Issue 139 - March 2026

LLMs can be absolutely exhausting The author points out that some of the frustrating things about working with LLMs are derived from how you work with the LLM. The author is not wrong, but those same things he identifies as sources of diminishing returns are true without LLMs too. Fatigue has an impact on output, as do lack of thinking ahead of time about the correct end-state and slow feedback…