Quoting Timothy B. Lee

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A quote from Timothy B. Lee compares using LLMs to management, arguing that just because you give instructions doesn't mean there's no learning curve.

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# A quote from Timothy B. Lee Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/timothy-b-lee/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/timothy-b-lee/) 26th June 2026 > This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do\. —[Timothy B\. Lee](https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/2070527944817053862),on the idea that LLMs take no skill and have no learning curve Posted[26th June 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/)at 9:15 pm ## Recent articles - [Porting the Moebius 0\.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/porting-moebius/)\- 22nd June 2026 - [sqlite\-utils 4\.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/sqlite-utils-40rc1/)\- 21st June 2026 - [Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/)\- 18th June 2026 This is a**quotation**collected by Simon Willison, posted on[26th June 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/)\. [ai2,087](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai/)[generative\-ai1,844](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai/)[llms1,812](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/)

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