I Don’t Like LLMs / 我不喜欢大语言模型

Martin Fowler: 17 Sep 2026 Martin Fowler：2026年9月17日

I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI and LLM technology. I’m fascinated by its effect on our profession, excited by the potential gains in productivity - and thus the products we could rapidly build. 我对人工智能和大语言模型（LLM）技术有着复杂的情感。我着迷于它对我们行业的影响，也对它带来的潜在生产力提升感到兴奋——这意味着我们可以快速构建出各种产品。

On the other hand, I’m fearful of the damage AI might cause: agent swarms taking over our virtual and physical infrastructure, designing bio weapons. But, back on my first hand, LLMs might also design miracle cures, and come up with clever ways to raise our prosperity. 另一方面，我也担心人工智能可能造成的破坏：智能体集群接管我们的虚拟和物理基础设施，甚至设计出生化武器。但转念一想，大语言模型也可能设计出奇迹般的疗法，并提出提高我们繁荣程度的巧妙方法。

Fundamentally I don’t think we have a choice about riding on the AI technology train. It’s a wild ride and I just hope we’ll get through it OK. But as I mull on this more, I realize that among this mix of contrasting feelings, there is one emotion that dominates - one that comes from my direct interactions with LLMs. I don’t like them. 从根本上讲，我认为我们别无选择，只能搭上人工智能这趟技术列车。这是一段狂野的旅程，我只希望我们能安然度过。但当我深入思考时，我意识到在这些矛盾的情感中，有一种情绪占据了主导地位——它源于我与大语言模型的直接互动。我不喜欢它们。

They talk to me in this grating LLM-voice, an uncanny valley of talking to a real human. They confidently bullshit me - often giving me useful, helpful answers. But also just making stuff up with the same assurance - and with only a veneer of fake remorse when I call them out on it. 它们用那种令人刺耳的“大语言模型腔”与我交谈，就像是在恐怖谷中与真人对话。它们自信地对我胡说八道——虽然经常能给出有用且有帮助的答案，但也会以同样的自信编造事实，当我指出错误时，它们只会表现出虚伪的悔意。

That’s not enough to make me feel we should avoid them. As Jessica Kerr put it “not only are they useful, it is irresponsible not to use them…. They’re more thorough, as well as faster.” This contradictory reaction comes through in polling, where people say they find these models are useful, but also that they think they will be bad for society. 但这还不足以让我觉得我们应该避开它们。正如 Jessica Kerr 所言：“它们不仅有用，不使用它们反而是不负责任的……它们更全面，也更快。”这种矛盾的反应也体现在民意调查中：人们一方面认为这些模型很有用，另一方面又认为它们对社会有害。

Much of this may be because LLMs are young - we haven’t trained them to grow up yet. Maybe I’ll like them once they mature. (I hope we get to find out.) But I’m not encouraged when I think of the kinds of environments that cultivate them. I’m wary of the Silicon Valley brogrammer subculture, and these LLMs are their products, so naturally lean toward their world-view. 这很大程度上可能是因为大语言模型还很年轻——我们还没能把它们培养成熟。也许等它们成熟后我会喜欢它们。（我希望我们能等到那一天。）但当我想到培育它们的环境时，我感到并不乐观。我警惕硅谷那种“兄弟程序员”（brogrammer）的亚文化，而这些大语言模型正是他们的产品，因此自然会倾向于他们的世界观。

When we think of AI agents, we shouldn’t anthropomorphize, treating them as conscious beings with their own will. They are (software) machines, developed by people working in corporations. While the agents’ behavior aren’t explicitly programmed, they are nurtured with the values of their creators. 当我们思考人工智能体时，不应将其拟人化，将其视为拥有自我意志的意识体。它们是由企业员工开发的（软件）机器。虽然智能体的行为并非被显式编程所决定，但它们是在创造者的价值观熏陶下成长起来的。

One of my most successful life-hacks is to avoid people I don’t like or don’t trust. I decline to interact with them socially, and make a deliberate effort to avoid working with them too, even if they are doing much that is beneficial. I feel that hanging out with pleasant, capable people, the people with integrity, has made my life a far better one. 我最成功的生活秘诀之一，就是避开那些我不喜欢或不信任的人。我拒绝与他们在社交场合互动，并刻意避免与他们共事，即使他们正在做许多有益的事情。我觉得与那些令人愉悦、有能力且正直的人在一起，让我的生活变得美好得多。

Hence my visceral dislike of interacting with an LLM that’s not just making a pretense of being human, but also posing as the kind of human I walk away from. 因此，我本能地厌恶与大语言模型互动，因为它不仅在假装人类，而且还在模仿那种我会避而远之的人。