[152334H]

> For the kinds of software I’m talking about, you want the prompts more than you want the source code.

Please do not do this.

Per OurWorldInData, >50% of the world lives below $10/day in 2026.

A $200/mth AI subscription costs ~66% of that.

Generation costs still exceed distribution costs by a wide margin.

Uploading costs you nothing, and it can help the poor.

[0xpgm]

> Uploading costs you nothing, and it can help the poor.

Could you expound more on this? Are you suggesting that less energy use in data centers would help the world's poor?

[jen20]

I read the suggestion as being that the world’s poor aren’t paying for AI tokens (or subscriptions) to generate software from prompts, and that sharing the _output_ is more beneficial to people. The reduction in energy waste is secondary, and benefits _everyone_.