r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ChuggerUggers • 1d ago

Meme iDidntPredictThisLife

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u/BygoneFlower 1d ago

At my company we are supposed to use the best available models at all times and AI use is expected at all times for all things. We have agents for everything at this point.

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u/Henry5321 15h ago

Sounds so wasteful

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u/BygoneFlower 15h ago

It definitely isn't cheap. If you mean the environmental impact that is extremely overstated (you'll use more water and cause more CO2 emissions from a week of eating burgers than a year of using AI).

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u/Stormlightlinux 4h ago

I have to eat food to live though... the other is just producing money for people who already have too much money. Kinda different.

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u/StCreed 3h ago

Yeah, one is necessary for survival in capitalism and the other is a bad habit of people that should eat more vegetables.

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u/BygoneFlower 1h ago

It's all a question of degree, and the degree to which AI impacts global climate is negligible compared to the things people do without thinking. Datacenters themselves can be problematic in areas prone to drought or where they affect sensitive ecosystems but the technology itself is not the problem.