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Quoting Kyle Kingsbury

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In Jepsen's analysis of ParticleDB 1.1.4, Kyle Kingsbury warns that LLMs erode trust in documentation, software, and the organizations behind them, and asks how maintainers can prove quality in this new era.

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A quote from Kyle Kingsbury

Simon Willison’s Weblog

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1st November 2026

More broadly, the use of LLMs erodes trust in documentation, in software, and in the organizations which produce them. Perhaps engineers will begin to treat any new software project with suspicion—the signals we used to rely on as markers of a mature system are now easier to counterfeit. [...]

In the age of LLMs, what can maintainers do to ensure correct software and accurate documentation? Having done that work, how can they demonstrate its quality to users?

— Kyle Kingsbury, Jepsen results for ParticleDB 1.1.4

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This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 1st November 2026.

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Key points

  • LLMs make it easier to counterfeit signals of mature software, leading engineers to suspect new projects.
  • Kingsbury asks what maintainers can do to ensure correct software and documentation, and how to demonstrate that quality to users.
  • The quote comes from Jepsen's analysis of ParticleDB 1.1.4 and was collected by Simon Willison on November 1, 2026.

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