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Re:We Might All Be AI Engineers Now by coldtea on Friday March 06, 2026 @08:41AM (#47274774)
>The environmental impact of AI replacing a human programmer is orders of magnitude lower than the environmental impact of that programmer. Look up average US water consumption and CO2 emissions per capita.

The programmer will continue to exist as a consumer of those things even if they get replaced by AI in their job.

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Re:We Might All Be AI Engineers Now by dist-epoch on Friday March 06, 2026 @09:21AM (#47275212)
But he will no longer have that much money to spend on environment damaging products.
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