My thoughts on LLMs in 2026

I’ve been having a million thoughts floating around my head concerning the “AI” (intelligence is hard to quantify nor is there a singular defined meaning for the AI term) industry and LLMs. As a person who’s day job is currently in developing enterprise business applications in the Java ecosystem, my LinkedIn is flooded with it. I’m not exaggerating. For every non-AI post, there are 10 others. I’m not sure whether releasing this post at all with the near-religious AI push will do me any favors.

Anyhow, in this post I’m hoping to point out my perspective on it all with hopefully some nuanced opinions. I’m not opposed to LLMs as a technology in a distilled vacuum (I will dive into this more), but I don’t see myself using AI often voluntarily. I will note down a lot of considerations why at this point in time I find using LLMs unethical and unhealthy and what would need to change for it not to be. I’ll try to isolate it on certain aspects I find important at first.

A retrospective on releasing the Juggle Star DX video game

This month marks the release of my first commercial game Juggle Star DX. While this is something that should be thoroughly enjoyed and celebrated, I can’t help but have mixed feelings about the whole process.

Nothing could have prepared me for how difficult this was

Working on this game was by far one of the most emotionally difficult paths I’ve embarked on voluntarily. And I say that having gone through a few personal hells. But it was also insanely rewarding at times. Thinking about that gives me a lot of conflicts inside. What made it this way for me?