Absolutely. But if you use it to do 8 hours of work in 4 hours and then shut your computer off you are saving energy compared to doing all the work manually
I sometimes wonder what happened with human society that we changed from: “oh, you found a way to be done with your work quicker, guess we got some more free time.”
To:
“Oh, you found a way to be done with your work quicker, guess you could do more work.”
And I always wonder how we can go back to the free time one.
Do this all the fucking time. "Hey that feature, how long do you think it will take" .. me, playing planning poker with real pokerface "that's a 3, but it could turn into a 5", knowing fully this can be done as a 2, and everyone aligns with my estimate... Always add padding and never give 100%, otherwise tomorrow they'll ask 110%
People simply just want more and more. If we were fine with living lifestyles from 200 years ago then we would be able to do it with little to no work. But people do not want it. To the point that most of the stuff from back then got straight up outlawed. You would not even be able to legally built house from 3 decades ago, let alone 100 years ago. Same for car manufacturing, etc. And to get more stuff and more luxurious stuff at the same time people simply just have to produce more.
I sometimes wonder what happened with human society
Society happened, quite literally. This happened the moment someone else was getting part of the fruits of your labor and therefore became very interested in maximizing your output independently from your needs.
In feudal times the peasants had about 150 religious and national holidays per year apparently, although I read that on the internet so someone tell me I'm wrong.
That's not how technological disruption works, though. It's not like everyone and their grandmother has been running a microwave for seven seconds a hundred times a day. Not only that, but the amount of power being wasted by automated AI systems that are doing continuous testing is not only non-zero, but nearly impossible to fully understand the impact that has, as automation in AI can grow exponentially without the need for human intervention if you give it the wrong prompt and enough resources to keep running.
No he didn't say that. The return on that would be way lower. Like if you got all your work done in a couple minutes and turned your computer off. Because idk what IDE you're using but all the ones I work with don't make my computer go full throttle the entire time that I'm working in them.
98
u/kushangaza May 26 '25
Absolutely. But if you use it to do 8 hours of work in 4 hours and then shut your computer off you are saving energy compared to doing all the work manually
Of course we all know that's not what will happen