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By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

LLMs Held Not To Be AI

March 26, 2026

Many public forums are filled with a chorus of praise for AI. I have accumulated a few hundred words of (mostly) more skeptical commentary.

notAI/LLM: A Power So Great It Can Only Be Used for Good or Evil
A chrestomathy of my AI coverage

What was it like last time(s)?
Comparing AI to the Industrial Revolution

AI BOT ITERATIVE HELL
It’s in all caps because I am screaming about it. A frightening glimpse of the time when all “Customer Service” is “provided” by NotAI/LLM bots

I—for one —welcome our new LLM overlords

Putting LLM/notAI In It’s Place
It took H. Claire Taylor, a writer of light humor, to create a concise description of what’s wrong with what’s going on.

Amateurs+LLM=Amateur Product

Shock: Nuance in AI Essay

Confuse an AI Today

Man Vs. Machine, Then and Now
John Henry was about Man vs. Machine. We’re there again.

Perhaps Stories Should Be Read Before Publication
Just another stupid AI user story

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