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Comment by veganmosfet

4 days ago

Same. I moved to codeberg because of the non-commercial and "freedom" aspects. I enjoy vibe-coding tools for different applications, e.g. for prompt injection research. Now I will probably move back to Github. I accept this decision but I am quite disappointed by the ideology and black & white view. LLMs are a fascinating technology created by us humans, and they have the potential to make our life better.

We shall stay curious.

> LLMs are a fascinating technology created by us humans, and they have the potential to make our life better.

Just like forever chemicals. LLMs cause a lot of problems and they should not be disregarded.

> We shall stay curious.

Curiousity is fine. But critical thinking is still advised

  • Appreciate the comment.

    Curiosity and critical thinking are both important when it comes to new technologies, agree.

    Agree too that LLMs can cause problems. However, I see a real net plus for me (in comparison, I never understood well why blockchain was so hyped). As a non-developer but with technical background, I can now create my own software tools or modify available tools for my needs; LLMs are also fantastic tutors - this feels like progress. I can imagine that researchers in many disciplines also feel this.

    At the same time I am scared, because many of my skills are just obsolete. And the environmental consequences are also "problematic". On the other hand, individual transport and industrial agriculture are (my intuitive take) much worse.

> they have the potential to make our life better

If you're a vegan as your nick suggests, i would suggest to reconsider this point. Capitalism was already bent on sending us towards a 6th mass species extinction (starting right under our noses), but so-called AI has changed the scale and speed of the curb drastically in only a few years. See for example this article for recent Google stats:

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to...

Recent AI datacenter projects such as Stratos (40000 acres) are on a scale of industrial destruction my mind fails to comprehend.

I'm not 100% vegan, but i'm 100% "AI-vegan", and i definitely would recommend you considering it.

PS: All i said was just about the environmental impact of LLMs. I suspect the human impact to be just as bad (cognitive impairment, accrued exploitation, etc).