Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post

07 Jun, 2026

So, my latest post went viral.

And with virality, you get a ton of comments that you must reply to.

I don't want to reply in HN/Reddit/Whatever to prevent endless thread depths that will consume my sanity. I'm going to cherry-pick some comments and leave answers here for those looking for them.

Wut? I pilot LLMs all day but there's no way in hell I'd agree to be at the helm of a finance product. LLMs routinely fail at our business specifics: Local tax regulations

I should have been more explicit about it. LLMs are not automating everything when it comes to local tax codes or very fine-grained details, but this is usually handled by the legal team here (which is also automating a lot of routines with LLMs as well).

But much of the domain knowledge I mastered over time (which is obviously shallower than what the legal team is doing) is now just promptable with ChatGPT Pro/Extended Thinking.

That's what makes me sad, I thought that having this knowledge would set me apart in a world of coders that just know how to code, but that's not the reality anymore.

particularities of the accounting process, specifics of our ledger implementations.

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