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The Problem with LLMs


Premise Six months ago, a friend of mine, with whom I work on the nonprofit Pariyatti mobile app, sent me this blog post by Vijay Khanna: From Idea to App in 7 Hours. By now, this is a fairly common zero-to-one LLM coding story. (LLM is short for Large Language Model but for the purposes of this essay, we’ll use it as a substitute for what is broadly categorized as “generative AI” in early 2026.

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