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  • Jun 30, 2026, 10:16 AM

    @DRMacIver @pozorvlak flipping that round, this points out a new risk this decade of large-scale breaking changes. One person using an LLM for a job like this may be able to doublethink their way around the environmental cost, but someone introducing a change that breaks 100 million users' scripts might well be causing _most_ of them to throw an environmental disaster at the problem, which is a far larger cost!

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  • Jun 30, 2026, 11:02 AM

    @simontatham @pozorvlak I'm pretty happy to singlethink my way around the environmental costs (which are comparable to just running the computer the software you're upgrading is on...) but probably not interested in arguing the case.

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  • Jun 30, 2026, 11:07 AM

    @simontatham @pozorvlak There are genuine environmental concerns around training (mostly insufficient grid capacity/storage and the resulting short-term significant increase in non-renewable energy), but inference isn't any more of an environmental disaster than normal computer use.

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