Post #4149065
2026-07-27 16:55 UTC
@UlrikNyman@mastodon.social @jaredwhite@indieweb.social
The "main" reason is because they hurt people including the programmer.
AI data centers driving the major coding LLMs are publicly and visibly hurting people and the environment where they are built and exacerbating climate change with their energy use.
Coding LLMs are being used as a justification for mass layoffs, so again, they're hurting people by breaking labor power.
Coding LLMs are part of a hail mary to keep the infinite money glitches that tech had relied upon going and in the process is enriching outright fascists, deepening inequality, and setting us all up for a painful economic collapse. So, once again, it hurts people.
Also, the various technical reasons other folks will list, which again, hurts you as the programmer.
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@matt5sean3@urusai.social 2026-07-27 17:07
@UlrikNyman@mastodon.social @jaredwhite@indieweb.social To be fair, some of this can be remediated through use of local, open models, but I don't see local LLMs used much in workplaces and that still doesn't remediate all the harms. Maybe academia could surprise me and would put some focus there. It still has issues that the hardware for local coding LLMs is by no means cheap, but academia still charges hundreds for books and had dedicated labs with high grade hardware for running CAD software when I went, so it's not unreasonable to do.