“Large Language Models perform an impression of automating that process, but for the most part force you, the user, to do the shit that matters, even if that means “be responsible for the code that it puts out.””
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
LLMs perform an impression of automating the process of building software, but for the most part force the user to do the things that matter, even if that only means being responsible for the code they put out.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, I Will Never Respect A Website, paragraph 75.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- for the most part (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- for the most part
Our interpretation
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Current assessment
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
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Why it can’t be checked
Both screens gave the same reason:
- Too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers.
- Evidence
- Not checked
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
Not checked against evidence. Two independent screens, one from each provider, both found this too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers.
Limitations
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Evidence (0 items)
No evidence was searched for. Both screens found that public evidence could not settle this claim.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Where's Your Ed At, I Will Never Respect A Website
Large Language Models perform an impression of automating that process, but for the most part force you, the user, to do the shit that matters, even if that means “be responsible for the code that it puts out.”
- Where
- paragraph 75
- Published
- 2026-04-14
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment wyea-i-will-never-respect-a-website-b586b9-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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