Comment by nl
1 day ago
> I’m sure they will end up with a fun little toy from the whole endeavor they can play with for 2 weeks before abandoning.
That's exactly the idea - except it's more like 2 hours before I prototype the next version.
> Maybe the author will even feel bad about the carbon footprint of this whole exercise and buy some carbon offsets to make up for it.
The passive aggressiveness of this is perfectly weighted and admirably phrased.
I am glad you get to have fun while people you will never meet and live in Sweden or Virginia have to suffer higher electricity prices. But we all get to enjoy the warmer climate together. But at least you can enjoy your self having the plagiarizer build you a single use toy that only took the carbon footprint of entire nations to create.
AI consumed around 0.5% of the world’s electricity in 2025[1]
Where I'm from data centers help the renewable mix by subsidizing transmission from other geographic zones. I'm actually improving the environment by using it.
[1]https://ourworldindata.org/how-much-energy-do-data-centers-a...