Post #921950

2026-04-03 14:05 UTC

It frustrates me more and more seeing people I know and respect fall into the AI con. Embracing AI ignores that: - AI is consuming vast amounts of electricity and water - Morally, it was trained on stolen content - It is has destabilised the storage/memory/hardware economy (at least temporarily) Any time anyone celebrates something they made with AI, I cannot help but think of those things, and how it is further plunging us into a terrible future in tech.

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@SenseException@phpc.social 2026-04-03 14:31

@asgrim@phpc.social I'm sure a lot of devs will ditch those AI jobs if someone shows interest in hiring them with same conditions and payment, but without AI.

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@weph@phpc.social 2026-04-03 14:45

@asgrim@phpc.social Yeah, I really don't get it. Whenever I bring up these issues, people agree but then continue to use it anyway. It's like they're addicted to it... so I stopped bringing it up because it felt like they were just humoring me...

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@joepferguson@phpc.social 2026-04-03 16:21

@asgrim@phpc.social Would love to discuss over 🍻 at phptek. There's so much to this discussion.

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@mattbrowndev@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 16:57

@asgrim@phpc.social sorry, but what is the con? LLMs provide value in the same way driving a car provides value. It uses natural and human resources in the same way a car uses natural resources. But we don’t call driving a “con”.

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@thbley@phpc.social 2026-04-03 18:26

@asgrim@phpc.social I only see celebrations on linkedin, haven't seen any here, feels like linkedin newsfeed knows what to promote and what to hide

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