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the reckoning the romhacking community has had with AI and it's presence in projects has made me reflect a lot the past two weeks, and I think i've found some footing, in no small part thanks to friends that are willing to hear out my anxieties

for me, I do think there's a definite split in the community between professional software developers and hobbyists in the space i dont think I got to fully understand how entrenched tech and IT was, with AI just now part of its backbone

I think AI and LLM in development sits squarely in the same box as resources for computing mined at the cost of the Global South's blood; the biggest difference now being that blood includes those of the Global North as well

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As far as AI veganism goes, I think there's some reframing that might be important in some sense On some level, I do think AI in software development is here to stay. To what degree that will be, I don't know. So, this does come down to an individual, gradual choice that will vary among people