{"slug": "quoting-timothy-b-lee", "title": "Quoting Timothy B. Lee", "summary": "Timothy B. Lee criticized the notion that large language models require no skill or learning curve, comparing it to the false assumption that managing employees is effortless because they follow orders.", "body_md": "26th June 2026\n\nThis is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do.\n\n— [Timothy B. Lee](https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/2070527944817053862), on the idea that LLMs take no skill and have no learning curve\n\n## Recent articles\n\n[Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code](/2026/Jun/22/porting-moebius/)- 22nd June 2026[sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions](/2026/Jun/21/sqlite-utils-40rc1/)- 21st June 2026[Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette](/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/)- 18th June 2026", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-timothy-b-lee", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/timothy-b-lee/#atom-everything", "published_at": "2026-06-26 21:15:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-26 21:43:27.896970+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Timothy B. Lee"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-timothy-b-lee", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-timothy-b-lee.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-timothy-b-lee.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-timothy-b-lee.jsonld"}}