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Aren't we all tired by this pro-AI stuff? Use it if you wanna ruin the planet. Don't use it if you care about maintaining skill.

I just don't really wanna hear about your pro-AI peddling anymore.

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AI is now a mainstream technology and well within the area of topics discussed on this board. Are we going to sit around and pretend it’s 2021? It’s like getting annoyed that all we talk about is computers.

The annoying part is that AI is getting shoved down every throat it can find. It's Blockchain and NFTs all over again.

There's nothing wrong with blockchain. In fact I find this swing back to centralized services distateful for this community.

“No blockchain” != “centralized”

Mastodon ain’t a blockchain and isn’t centralized.

Unlike blockchain Mastodon isn't decentralized either.

Eh, like everything on the Internet, the anti crowd is becoming more obnoxious than the pro crowd ever was. It has become an identity thing, more than a technical thing, and it always sucks when it devolves into that.

It is still a technical thing though. AI generated code is outright buggy when it’s not mediocre but the pro AI crowd is pretending you can guardrail and test suite your way to good generated code. As if painting a picture in negative space is somehow less work than painting it directly. And that’s when you know all the requirements (the picture) upfront.

> Eh, like everything on the Internet, the anti crowd is becoming more obnoxious than the pro crowd ever was.

In your highly objective opinion, of course.

Is wasting massive fucktons of water and electricity an identity thing? Is it identity that RAM now costs 10x what it used to?

What are you gonna spend these water and electricity in US on instead?

Everything else? Higher demand for electricity drives up prices across the board.[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-environme...

Since you thought not elaborating is a good idea, I take it you want more electricity for:

- Bitcoin mining

- weapons production

- banking infrastructure

- making slop TV shows

- charging preteen phones

- playing Mario cart

- heating empty mansions to 27C in winter

- cheaper electricity price for consumers

- less pollution

- a more stable grid

there, fixed it for you

From the consumer perspective no ChatGPT with slightly cheaper electricity is a no-no. Like you might be happy about that arrangement, but most won't.

You don't have any data to corroborate less AI -> less pollution, especially long term.

Same for grid stability.

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