Comment by ghickPit

> Everybody knows LLMs are not alive and don't think, feel, want.

Please go ahead now and EAT YOUR WORDS:

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/22/a-year-of-vibes/

> Because LLMs now not only help me program, I’m starting to rethink my relationship to those machines. I increasingly find it harder not to create parasocial bonds with some of the tools I use. [...] I have tried to train myself for two years, to think of these models as mere token tumblers, but that reductive view does not work for me any longer.