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by JKCalhoun 429 days ago
> In some countries, more than 90% of the population lives on less than $5 per day. If agentic AI code generation becomes the most effective way to write high-quality code, this will create a massive barrier to entry … Don't even get me started on the green house gas emissions of data centers...

My (naive?) assumption is that all of this will come down: the price (eventually free) and the energy costs.

Then again, may daughters know I am Pollyanna (someone has to be).