> I don’t like them. They talk to me in this grating LLM-voice

I find that what makes people hate LLM-voice isn’t the voice itself. It’s that the voice pings their brain with a reminder of their AI anxiety. That ping makes people instantly upset.

> They confidently bullshit me - often giving me useful, helpful answers. But also just making stuff up with the same assurance … When we think of AI agents, we shouldn’t anthropomorphize... They are (software) machines

I believe these ideas contradictory. I find that people get angry at LLMs bullshitting precisely because they are not anthropomorphizing. People bullshit all the time. But, these are machines! Machines are not supposed to bullshit! And, when they do, there’s supposed to be a bug filed and fixed.

By holding LLMs up to the expectations of machines instead of expectations of (simulated) people, users are frustrating themselves.

If you take the same “trust but verify (everything)” approach with LLMs as you do with people, you’ll be a lot less frustrated.

I can't speak for others, but there's no anxiety in my dislike of "LLM-voice." The writing is terrible, overly dense, and often needlessly self-congratulatory or hedged. Many times it reads as if someone rewrote a perfectly good sentence with an unimportant preamble and adjectives pulled at random from a thesaurus which, I suppose, is kind of what happens.