Inglo GamesThis is a fascinating article about AI-based productivity claims, with a ton of data to back up his claims. Definitely worth a read regardless of your stance on AI.
https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding
Paco Hope@IngloGamesDev You know what aspect of development AI increases by 10x or more? Electricity usage and natural resources impact. You can get devastating consumption of resources to deliver mediocre or unusable results.
Mihai Christodorescu@paco @IngloGamesDev You can make the same statement ("devastating consumption of resources to deliver mediocre or unusable results") about the vast majority of human activities, not just AI usage.
Florian Schmidt@mihai
Yes, take cars for example: They make you 10x-100x as productive in carrying stuff - and now we're carrying 10x-100x as much stuff (and even more, ~Jevon's Paradox) *needlessly* around.
@paco @IngloGamesDev
Yes, take cars for example: They make you 10x-100x as productive in carrying stuff - and now we're carrying 10x-100x as much stuff (and even more, ~Jevon's Paradox) *needlessly* around.
@paco @IngloGamesDev
Dźwiedziu@mihai
Then why add AI slop to the mix?
In your equivocation it's as bad as humanity and you don't dispute the 10× resource use.
So not only it's still wasteful it's redundant.
(I'll mercifully skip deconstructing the rather offensive and ecofash-smelling argument, that humanity is somehow wholly responsible for devastation and equal to elite-forced slopification of technology.)