The question is so loaded… these are tools. I’m evaluating them like any other tool and using them where they’re helpful and not where I perceive them to be unnecessary or cause trouble.

It also seems to me that some people are leaning on them for things they should not be. It can help you research psychology; it cannot be your therapist.

In these strange times, apparently that makes me “resisting” or “a Luddite.”

I use AI. I think it is moderately useful. I also think it's a sort of dead end technology that will die sooner or later because the economics make no sense, and likely never will.

It's also very destructive in a societal and environmental level. I didn't pick this music though. The only thing I can do is either dance or stand around while it plays.

> I am tired of people that have no concerns about climate change or the impact of their collective actions on other humans. I hope that one day everyone will be judged for their role in this system.

I have a more practical approach - I reject that individual action is meaningful to fight climate change.

Ir requires societal and political action for anything meaningful that might move this needle. Individual action will do nothing to fix systemic problems, you will only giving yourself a debuff for nothing.

Vote for parties that want to tackle the issue seriously, support initiatives at societal and political level that may so something in the right direction, etc.

"I am not using AI because it has a negative effect in climate change" will do nothing while a gargantuan amount of money is pumped into it so GPUs may turn electricity into bullshit text, code of questionable quality, and images of dubious taste.

> constantly see spamming AI bots that send zillions of useless or poor-quality PRs to OSS. I see PRs that add features, but are really huge, making maintenance even harder in the future without the help of AI

Is there a possibility of using automation to fix this very issue? Before you admonish me of burning more carbon to address output of burnt carbon, hear me out.

For example: if these PRs are on GitHub, then we have a set of actions that:

- run a regression test suite to ensure there are no net new bugs.

- Then it verifies whether the PR has high quality tests for the feature they're implementing

- runs a suite of complexity, readability, security tests and gathers metrics about them, automatically closing poor quality PRs and even blocking accounts that submit them?

I argue these automation are great to have for any project - those that have AI contributions or not.

> I see data centers popping up at a scale never seen, consuming more and more energy. more and more resources (They basically consumed all RAM/SSD of 2026).

> consume a full 1.5% of the world’s total energy production in order to eliminate jobs and replace them with a robot that lies

From my perspective, this is an extremely reductive view of AI. My view is that we are fundamentally undergoing a shift in knowledge work and these are all costs that will bear fruit for decades to come.

Imagine freeways being built on barren land. In decades to come it will bear fruit entire new cities and farms. Right now all that construction for those freeways in progress alarm anyone thinking of the climate but the farms that will be possible thanks to these freeways will offset the debt and even support the cities around them.

I promise you I spent more energy air conditioning my house this month than the collective energy of all my prompts over the past year to date while refinaries are being blown up in multiple countries right now. It's a silly argument. The hardware coming out now is 10x faster while using the same amount of energy as a regular desktop while I'm gaming. I legit can't take this "please think of the environment" argument seriously. The math ain't mathing.