burning the planet down aside
If we only used AI for codegen, this probably wouldn’t be much of an issue. Those cat videos take more energy than building a complete app. Also, it’s all pretty new and the newest tech 40 years ago would have filled a warehouse and had the computational power of a potato, but here we are now. I expect we’ll get more efficient at it and in the ways we use it. And there’s already a huge worldwide shift in energy capture (America aside…)